Carmilla’s vampirism is marked by ambiguous racial Otherness
Evidence
- Le Fanu’s Carmilla is not examined in this book. However, as one of the formative texts on the vampire, it should be pointed out that Carmilla has racial characteristics that mark her as a racial Other. Like Dracula, her ancestry is likely mixed and somewhat mysterious. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 793
Categorization
- XREF: Extends the vampire strand into a second formative text, enriching the modern-monster genealogy the reader is mapping from medieval Saracens to vampires.