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Speaking with Vampires

Author : Luise White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922298
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Speaking with Vampires written by Luise White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.

The Vampires of Africa

Author : Herb Cunningham
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466973617
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Vampires of Africa written by Herb Cunningham and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ten thousand years ago, a race called the Bitalo conquered the continent of Africa. They were something like vampires, something like African vampires. There is a quite a bit of sunshine in Africa. Do you know what that means? It means that the African vampires do not fear the sun. It means that the sun cannot save you from an African vampire. There are African vampires in the United States. They came to this country during the slave trade. Most of them look like ordinary African American people, but there are Bitalos in every race. African vampires do not like blood that much. To them it is like milk—good for their health. Some call them cannibal vampires or ghoul vampires because their main food is people. They like their food prepared in many ways—fried, baked, barbequed, and ground like hamburgers. There are quite a few African vampires in the United States. Now they are planning to take over the United States. Somebody has got to stop them. John Irungu has killed quite a few Bitalos, but he is a very old man now, and he is becoming senile. Also, there would seem to be very few Irungu Knights left. But John Irungu has a much younger friend named John David Hunter, also known as the Preacher. The preacher just might be a natural-born Irungu Knight. He just might be the Chosen One. Bitalo prophecy warns them of the coming of a man who could destroy them. He would be a descendant of Curtis Jore, the man of war, the man who destroyed their ancient vampire. Could this preacher be the Chosen One?

The Vampires Of Africa

Author : Teejay LeCapois
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329759885
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Vampires Of Africa written by Teejay LeCapois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tariq Chumbe was born in 19th century Zanzibar, East Africa, to African Muslim leader Abdul Chumbe and his Indian wife, Ayesha Khan. Raised as a Prince among his people, Tariq's life changes during a visit to a brothel, where he meets mysterious Nilotic beauty Nyaba. She turns Tariq into one of the Undead, right before his family's enemies capture him and sell him to Arabian slave traders. After escaping, Tariq realizes he's changed. For he is doomed to wander the Earth for all eternity, thirsting for human blood. Tariq begins a new existence as a Vampire. Along the way, he fights against Arabian slave traders, the long-time persecutors of Africans, and opposes oppressive regimes. One day, Tariq meets the Vampires of Africa, a most secretive and powerful brood whose stories have never been told. Until now.

The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction

Author : Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
Publisher : New Suns: Race, Gender, and Se
ISBN 13 : 9780814214015
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction written by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins and published by New Suns: Race, Gender, and Se. This book was released on 2019 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the link between blackness and immortality in the fledgling genre of African American vampire fiction"--

The Things That Fly in the Night

Author : Giselle Liza Anatol
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813565758
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Things That Fly in the Night written by Giselle Liza Anatol and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to fly about her community and suck the blood of her unwitting victims. In contrast to the glitz, glamour, and seductiveness of conventional depictions of the European vampire, the soucouyant triggers unease about old age and female power. Tracing relevant folklore through the English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the U.S. Deep South, and parts of West Africa, Anatol shows how tales of the nocturnal female bloodsuckers not only entertain and encourage obedience in pre-adolescent listeners, but also work to instill particular values about women’s “proper” place and behaviors in society at large. Alongside traditional legends, Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character and used her instead to urge for female mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance. Texts include work by authors as diverse as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, U.S. National Book Award winner Edwidge Danticat, and science fiction/fantasy writers Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson.

The Black Vampyre

Author : Uriah Derick D'Arcy
Publisher : Leamington Books
ISBN 13 : 1914090063
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Black Vampyre written by Uriah Derick D'Arcy and published by Leamington Books. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARNING! Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and plantation owners!This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror to radical outrage on the subject of slavery, reaching a blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying the bankers who caused the economic recession of that same year.An anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years ago, The Black Vampyre vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would ever see, decades before Karl Marx ― the enslavement of Africans in the New World.One dead man said no! And this is his story.The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo tells the affrighting tale of a slave who is resurrected as a vampire after being killed by his owner; the slave seeks revenge by stealing the owner's son and marrying the owner's wife. The anonymous writer D'Arcy sets the story against the conditions that led to the Haitian Revolution.First published in chapbook form in New York in 1819, this emancipatory tale from literary New York in the 1810s arguably dates the birth of horror as know it!This edition features a new introduction as well as extensive notes and a guide to literary allusions.

The Vampire State in Africa

Author : J. H. Frimpong-Ansah
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865432796
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire State in Africa written by J. H. Frimpong-Ansah and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom

Author : Justin Achilli
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588462398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom written by Justin Achilli and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vampire Legends and Myths

Author : Roxanne Hellman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448860423
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Vampire Legends and Myths written by Roxanne Hellman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the legends and myths of vampires have permeated various cultures around the world. In folklore, frequently vampires visited their loved ones, and caused evil doings or deaths in the places they inhabited when they were alive. The romance of the vampire lies in his total isolationhe is the tragic character of the fallen angel, one with unimaginable power. Yet, his fatal weakness makes him vulnerable. In this mesmerizing book, readers learn about the origins of vampires and their various forms across the ancient world, Europe, America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. Vlad Tepes, the land of Transylvania, and Dracula are engagingly introduced. The volume also describes how vampires have been featured in books and film.

The Vampires Of Ethiopia

Author : Teejay LeCapois
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329888235
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Vampires Of Ethiopia written by Teejay LeCapois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Ammanuel Tilahun, and I've got one hell of a story to share with you. I was born in 1298 A.D. in the City of Gondar, Ethiopia. In 1319, my father Adam Tilahun, a Knight of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, went out to fight the Vampires who invaded East Africa and returned as one of them. Papa turned me into a Vampire, and I've roamed the world as an Immortal blood drinker ever since. In 1987 in the City of Montreal, Quebec, I met college student and Haitian church leader Esther Polydor, and fell in love with her. I made her into a Vampire. The transformation changed Esther for the worst, and I had to stop her. Now, three decades later, Esther is back, and gunning for me and everyone I care about. An angry woman who absolutely cannot die, that's who I must now face. Heaven help me...

Anansi the Talking Spider and Other Legendary Creatures of Africa

Author : Craig Boutland
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1538227096
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Anansi the Talking Spider and Other Legendary Creatures of Africa written by Craig Boutland and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African culture, like many others around the world, is rich with tales of legendary animals and creatures. Readers of this captivating book will love learning about these fascinating stories, from that of Anansi, a cunning spider, to that of Grootslang, a creepy, cave-dwelling creature said to live in South Africa. The engaging stories are accompanied by colorful images and illuminating sidebars. Readers are taught to understand the meaning of legends but are also presented with information regarding the cultures these tales come from.

A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits

Author : Carol K. Mack
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805062700
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits written by Carol K. Mack and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Arcade Pub.: Distributed by Little, Brown and Company, c1998.

The Vampire

Author : Thomas M. Bohn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202930
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire written by Thomas M. Bohn and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood. Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s, underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.

American Vampires

Author : Bob Curran
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601635885
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Vampires written by Bob Curran and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires are much more complex creatures than Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Twilight, True Blood, or scores of other movies and television shows would have you believe. Even in America. American vampire lore has its roots in the beliefs and fears of the diverse peoples and nationalities that make up our country, and reflects the rich tapestry of their varied perspectives. The vampires that lurk in the American darkness come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can produce some surprising results. Vampires in North Carolina are vastly different from those in South Carolina, and even more different from those in New York State. Moreover, not all of them are human in form, and they can’t necessarily be warded off by the sight of a crucifix or a bulb of garlic. Dr. Bob Curran visits the Louisiana bayous, the back streets of New York City, the hills of Tennessee, the Sierras of California, the deserts of Arizona, and many more locations in a bid to track down the vampire creatures that lurk there. Join him if you dare! This is not Hollywood’s version of the vampire—these entities are real!

The Rise of the Vampire

Author : Erik Butler
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231393
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Vampire written by Erik Butler and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Bella and Edward; Stefan and Damon Salvatore; and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, there was Lestat and Louis, The Lost Boys, and Buffy Summers. Before True Blood and Let the Right One In, there was Dark Shadows and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. And then there is the most prominent of them all: Dracula, immortalized by Bram Stoker in 1897. Whether they’re evil, bloodsucking monsters or sparkling like diamonds in the sunlight, vampires have been capturing our imagination since their modest beginnings in the rustic fantasies of southeastern Europe in the early eighteenth century. Today, they’re everywhere, appearing even in movies in Japan and Korea and in reggae music in Jamaica and South Africa. Why have vampires gone viral in recent years? In The Rise of the Vampire, Erik Butler seeks to explain our enduring fascination with the creatures of the night. Exploring why a being of humble origins has achieved success of such monstrous proportions, Butler considers the vampire in myth, literature, film, journalism, political cartoons, music, television, and video games. He describes how and why they have come to give expression to the darker side of human life—though vampires evoke age-old mystery, they also embody many of the uncertainties of the modern world. Butler also ponders the role global markets and digital technology have played in making vampires a worldwide phenomenon. Whether you’re a fan of classic vampire tales or new additions to the mythology, The Rise of the Vampire is a fascinating look at our collective obsession with the undead.

Dance of the Vampires and Six Other Plays

Author : Bole Butake
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956790397
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Dance of the Vampires and Six Other Plays written by Bole Butake and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This crowning collection brings together seven of Bole Butake's finest plays since 1984, namely: Dance of the Vampires; Family Saga; Lake God; Betrothal Without Libation; And Palm Wine Will Flow; The Rape of Michelle; and Shoes. More than an academic, Butake has distinguished himself as a playwright, unearthing and foregrounding the ills, travails and predicaments of a land and people trapped by the blood-dripping impunities of vampires in power. In his rich repertoire of over ten plays, Butake takes sides with the downtrodden, the wretched of the earth, the deprived and the underdogs. His jabs and jibes, aimed at the rulers, are scathing, at times vitriolic. He has excelled at a stubborn determination to ignore the sinecures, lure and allure of power without responsibility.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Author : Marlon James
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735220190
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Black Leopard, Red Wolf written by Marlon James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award The New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.