Dracula articulated Victorian anxiety about reverse colonization

Evidence

On the theme of reverse-colonization, see Stephen D. Arata, “The Occidental Tourist: ‘Dracula’ and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization,” Victorian Studies 33, no. 4 (Summer 1990): 621–645. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 1095

Categorization

• XREF: Strong parallel for the reader’s thesis: the monster (Dracula) as container for colonizer’s anxiety about being colonized — same projective mechanism as the Muslim monster. — connects to: Moral panics about women online repeat Victorian fears of women in stores — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 53
• SEED: Essay angle: the Muslim monster and Dracula as twin Gothic containers for the West’s reverse-colonization anxiety.