I was invited to do another presentation for Fantasia 2021!
This was something brewing in my head for a while, so I was thrilled to explore Black women in a monstrous role. I wanted to reach back and reveal how Black women are seen in general and apply those perceptions to some of our favourite monsters played by some of the best Black women on screen.
Check out the full presentation here:
Sources:
Bibliography:
Anatol, Giselle Liza. The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora (Critical Caribbean Studies). Rutgers University Press. Kindle Edition, 2015.
Brooks, Kinitra D. Searching for Sycorax. Rutgers University Press, 2018.
hooks, bell. Ain’t I a Woman. Routledge, 2014.
hooks, bell. Black Looks. Routledge, 2015.
Jones, Grace; Morley, Paul. I’ll Never Write My Memoirs. Gallery Books. Kindle Edition, 2015.
Means Coleman, Robin R. Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present. Routledge, 2011.
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