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Vampires, Anxieties, and Dreams: Race and Sex in the Contemporary United States
Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00819.x
2003 by Hypatia, Inc.
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WINNUBST, S. (2003), Vampires, Anxieties, and Dreams: Race and Sex in the Contemporary United States. Hypatia, 18: 1–20. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00819.x
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- Issue published online: 9 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
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Drawing on several feminist and anti-racist theorists, 1 use the trope of the vampire to unravel how whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality feed on the same set of disavowals—of the body, of the Other, of fluidity, of dependency itself. I then turn tojewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories (1991) for a counternarrative that, along with Donna Harauiay's reading of vampires (1997), retools concepts of kinship and self that undergird racism, sexism, and heterosexism in contemporary U.S. culture.