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Not Your Mother's Vampire: Vampires in Young Adult Fiction: Vampires in Young Adult Fiction
Author(s): Deborah Wilson Overstreet (Author)
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date: 15 Aug. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 170 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780810853652
- ISBN-13: 0810853655
Book Description
Not Your Mother’s Vampire analyzes twenty current young adult vampire novels and also addresses Buffy the Vampire Slayer-all vampire representations aimed at younger audiences. The book’s structure includes an overview of vampire scholarship, an analysis of vampire characters (featuring an exploration of vampire conventions and vampires and sexuality), an analysis of human characters (featuring an exploration of those humans who fight vampires and those who date vampires), and an analysis of the vampire characters from the Buffyverse.
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Review
A “closet vampire fan” traces the evolution of vampire stories, Anne Rice”s influence, and the vampire as metaphor in ten classic texts from Polidori”s “The Vampyre” (1819) to Coppola”s 1992 film, Bram Stoker”s Dracula. Pointing out the relevance of these archetypes to sexuality, rebellion, and other adolescent issues, Overstreet (elementary education, U. of Maine, Farmington), summarizes and analyzes a sample of the genre specifically for this audience (e.g., Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series). She includes annotated relevant scholarly studies and a comparison chart of elements of the classic versions.
…interesting reading….
Overstreet evaluates 20 novels, giving plot summaries of each and comparing them to classical ideals of vampires.
About the Author
Deborah Wilson Overstreet is associate professor of literacy education in the Department of Elementary Education at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she teaches courses in reading and language arts methods, children’s literature, young adult literature, diversity education, and now, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is the author of Unencumbered by History: The Vietnam Experience in Young Adult Fiction (1998).
