Dracula’s monstrosity encodes anxiety about Ottoman-tainted European bloodlines

Evidence

Dracula is many monsters—a Jew, a Muslim, a Hun, a dracul, the devil. As other scholars have pointed out, the crusade against the monster is symbolic of the mixed Ottoman bloodlines that have infected Europe, threatening Anglo-Saxon purity. Stoker had a purpose in writing Dracula situated in racial politics: “[He] is setting in motion a deligitimization of the Ottoman history of Europe through the figure of the vampire, whose hybrid identification (a result of his history) as both Christian and Ottoman, makes him monstrous and ultimately incoherent, a source of history that logically (but also anxiously) needs to be silenced.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 557

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s thesis on how the Muslim monster is manufactured as a container for Western anxieties—here the fear of hybrid Ottoman bloodlines.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: the fictional monster as a historical archive that mainstream history needs to silence.