Our pop culture seemingly can't get enough of vampires and vampire fiction, from WhatWeDointheShadows to InterviewWithTheVampire. But which bloodsucker is best? loislane79 asked the experts.
The late sci-fi writer’s final book “engages critically with the genre of vampire fiction and also with the subjects common to Butler’s work – namely oppression and discrimination and the struggle for power,” emails Kim Snowden, an assistant professor of teaching at the The University of British Columbia’s Social Justice Institute where she concentrates on fairy-tale motifs in vampire popular culture.
Snowden says Shori, who originally appears as a severely injured young, Black girl with amnesia, is someone we come to learn is a 53-year-old vampire from a species called the Ina who was injured in a fire that killed most of her family. The book also discusses notions of power and consent, as Ina blood is addictive to humans, as well as issues of cultural symbiosis since Shori’s species lives openly with humans.
“What I like about Shori is that she never fully recovers from her amnesia in the novel and it becomes framed somewhat as a disability; something she learns to live with rather than something that limits her or that she must overcome and she challenges those who suggest she is less-than because of it,” Snowden explains. “She must relearn her vampire history, family, traditions, and circumstances.
In doing this, Snowden says, “it opens up possibilities for different vampire futures where Shori represents a world free of oppression and where she also represents a different kind of vampire — worlds away from the Edward Cullens that were popular when
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