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'The article reads the trilogy mainly through Barbara Creed's theorization of the monstrous feminine and examines the ways in which Mudrooroo presents his post-conquest female vampire as castrating and all-consuming. It also argues that it is possible to see Mudrooroo's female monster as a textual representation of the legendary soulless mother who would devour her own son to feed her sense of self and reality - with all the connotations of the author's descredited claim to Aboriginal identity this implies.'
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121-138
Terror as White Female in Mudrooroo's Vampire Trilogy
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Subjects:
- The Undying 1998 single work novel
- Underground 1999 single work novel
- The Promised Land 2000 single work novel
- Master of the Ghost Dreaming 1991 series - author novel
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