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I want to begin this exploration with two short textual quotations. The first will likely not be familiar to most readers:
Her mouth was red, her face rose-red and her clothes were red from drinking the blood of her only-son and her mouth was crimson-red from the dark streams of blood that fell from [His] wounds, drinking and kissing the ground on which those waves of blood fell. (Quoted in Ryan 2002, p. 172)
The past survives; conquest and expropriation have failed; or, to state the same proposition conversely, the present is pure revenant, a mere extension of something more real. (McCormack 1997, p. 251)
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Smart, R.A. (2013). Postcolonial Dread and the Gothic: Refashioning Identity in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In: Khair, T., Höglund, J. (eds) Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272621_2
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