ENGL 4300Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anne Rice
3 Mar 2016
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The contemporary vampire: aids and the queering of community. Blood becoming a symbol of death instead of a symbol of life. Pain never being able to see a sunrise. Sunrise sign of freedom and human being; gays not being able to experience these little moments. Vampire sign of liberation for the gay community. The splitting of that allegory of louis and lestat. Louis vampire with a human soul. Louis having to live after his wife and baby dies. All louis wants to find out who vampires are. Him and armand talk about what evil is. Takes the religious aspect out of it taking god out of the question. Sex, blood and (un)death: the queer vampire and hiv . Blood relations: the gothic perversion of the nuclear family in.
