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Not this book reminding me why I don't like Fledgling. 🌚😟

I prefer when the chapters are about novels. When short stories are the focus it comes across as numerous narratives oriented around a particular theme with shades of difference not distinct/impactful enough to warrant the exhaustive treatment. Useful for students I'm sure but I'm bored. The deep dives on a few novels result in more compelling critiques.

...as Malchow notes..." one must remember that Jew, Asian, and Black shared a rhetorical opprobrium that although each possessed in the literature of prejudice uniquely repulsive elements, tied them together"... to date, Dracula scholars have not fully considered the implications of British imperial work in Africa and the Caribbean...

Exactly! This is what I thought when I read the novel for myself.

Anatol does her best to render de Lisser's White Witch of Rosehall as a text that "shifts away from conventional Eurocentric associations between blackness and evil and instead vilifies Whiteness". The reading doesn't make sense when what makes Annie Paul evil in the text is her proximity to Blackness–specifically Haiti and the Black "Baroness" who raised her. Weird elision.