Vampires: An Uprising Encoded
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Vampire-fiction of the nineteenth century along with presenting the fearful, presents an underlying element of protest against all sorts of oppression which the patriarchal society has consistently been the operator of. Francoise D’Eaubonne’s ecofeminism, as a theory with a greater scope as a critique for its inclusiveness, vehemently protests against the four interlocking pillars of patriarchal society, namely, sexism, racism, classism, sectarianism and environmental destruction. A close reading of the vampire-literature of the nineteenth century would reveal that under the religion-induced fear that the vampire-characters command, the texts have become fictional manifestoes of protest. The dimensions of fear that the vampires uphold, are in fact their protest on behalf of those people whose being oppressed or marginalized was due to society’s adherence to the differentiae – related to sex, class, race, sect and proximity to urbanity.
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