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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:53:12 +0200, RVG    
   wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes a écrit :   
   >> Call for Papers: 2nd Global Conference   
   >>   
   >> MAGIC AND THE SUPERNATURAL   
   >>   
   >> Thursday 17th March – Saturday 19th March 2011   
   >> Prague, Czech Republic   
      
   >Dracula doesn't belong to the supernatural genre per se, it's much more   
   >a raw criticism of victorian England's brutal and oppressive empire,   
   >both over foreign colonies and local proletarians, as described by Bram   
   >Stoker, an Irish writer living in London who obviously had to speak in   
   >parables and metaphors in order to bypass censorship. His figure of   
   >count Dracula is very much in the line of Marx's Capital.   
      
   You haven't been reading THIS, by any chance?   
      
   Glover, David. 1996. Vampires, mummies and liberals. Durham, NC:   
                  Duke University Press.   
                  ISBN: 0-8223-1798-2   
                  Dewey: 823.8   
                      A hundred years after its first publication in   
                      1897, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is still one of   
                      the most popular of all Gothic narratives.   
                      Glover reconstructs the cultural, social and   
                      political world that gave birth to Dracula.   
                      Stoker, an Irish Protestant and nationalist,   
                      drew his political inspiration from English   
                      liberalism at a time of impending crisis, and   
                      the tradition's contradictions and   
                      uncertainties haunt his work. Stoker   
                      manifests a preoccupation with those sciences   
                      and pseudosciences - from physiognomy to   
                      phrenology to eugenics and sexology - that   
                      seemed to cast doubt on the liberal faith in   
                      progress. Dracula should be read as a text   
                      torn between the stances of the colonizer and   
                      the colonized, torn by racialized images of   
                      backwardness that dog Irish nationalism.   
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
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