In Stoker and Coppola, miscegenation with the Orientalized vampire produces monstrous hybrid races.

Evidence

In these scenes, Coppola expresses one of the central themes in Bram Stoker’s text, that miscegenation is a practice that creates monsters. The possibility of the monstrous race of human-vampire hybrids is intimated at the end of the film, with Mina’s pregnancy. If Mina isn’t carrying Jonathon’s child, British racial purity is, once again, under threat from a race of monsters. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 665

Categorization

  • XREF: Ties the Muslim-monster theme to fin-de-siecle racial-purity anxieties also seen in invasion literature and later Nazi racial science; likely connects to my frameworks on monster-as-container.