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From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the vampire embodies cultural taboos and desires surrounding hospitality, rape and consent—the three notions that are the focus of this volume. As host and guest, captor and hostage, perfect lover and force of seductive predation, the bloodsucking monster welcomes us into ominous spaces of home, gives life to the metaphor of threshold, blurs the boundaries between invitation, invasion and coercion, and speaks about the complexities of consent.
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This page is a summary of: Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62782-3.
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