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Taking a broad interpretation of “supernatural” to include anything beyond nature, Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural examines the liminality of often-overlooked types of supernatural beings in light of the themes of death and gender. It gives the reader a tour of the continents and takes them out into space, looking at popular culture and mythologies to propose answers to fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of “dead,” and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them.

Table of Contents

Part I. Korea: Zombies and Other Supernatural
Chapter 1. A (Wo)Man's Touch: Doomsday Book as Critique of Metropolis
Liz W. Faber
Part II. China: Demonic Possession and Spiritual Vampires
Chapter 2. Gender, Death, and the Supernatural in The Untamed (Chen Qing Ling): A Danmei Genre Pop Cultural Phenomenon.
Lucy Yuan Qin and Kong F. Cheong
Part III. Russia: Trans Rebirth
Chapter 3. A Real Woman is an Iceberg, and a Real Man is Made: Gender, Failure, and Death in Post-Soviet Cinematic Space
Lev Nikulin
Part IV. Australia: Aboriginal Vampires
Chapter 4. The Yara-ma-yha-who, “Real” Vampires, and Aboriginal Erasure: The Retold Vampires of Australian Horror Fiction
McKenzie Lynn Tozan
Part V. The Caribbean: Animism and Why the Dead Walk at Night
Chapter 5. When Opposites Impact: The Remarkable Duality Present in the Taíno Belief System
James M. VanderVeen
Part VI. Afrofuturism: Astral Projection and Hyperempathy
Chapter 6. Dying to Live in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Breonna Taylor's America: Disco

Product details

Published Jun 17 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 218
ISBN 9781666907414
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Rebecca Gibson

Rebecca Gibson is assistant professor at Virginia…

Anthology Editor

James M. VanderVeen

Contributor

Brian Brutlag

Contributor

Kong F. Cheong

Contributor

Liz W. Faber

Contributor

Freya Fenton

Contributor

Rebecca Gibson

Rebecca Gibson is assistant professor at Virginia…

Contributor

Lev Nikulin

Contributor

Jamie A. Thomas

Contributor

Lucy Yuan Qin

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