English 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prosperity Theology, Rainbow Nation, Industrial Revolution
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The vampire sucks the life out of people, and thus, they are the ultimate consuming figure. It is also associated with a disease that spreads, which is why when the questions of ids is layer on it becomes a bit confusing. The figure that is immortal becomes mortal, but only in africa. Linked to aids and the historical kinds of criticism against the government not addressing theaids pandemic appropriately, and not taking proper action. There was suspicion that america had came from. America, and the pharmaceuticals were providing were actually killing drugs". There is this stretch of time where nothing was being done. This could be why this is a device in the narrative - a south african reader would understand this. A vampire thus could get aids, and thus makes sense that ids could thus transfer to them. Thus there is the question of disease, and where the disease actually lies. Responds to the colonial history in south africa.
