Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
by
Giselle Liza Anatol
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag—an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night’s darkest hours in order...