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Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture

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Focusing on the films What We do in the Shadows and Twilight, alongside fan performances of hospitality ranging from creative works to bodily modification, this chapter investigates the ways in which the domestic environment of both vampires and humans alike function as a site of hospitality informed by “fannishness” and the attempt to welcome the monstrous into the home. The vampiric home is a liminal space, at once a site of hospitality towards the predator, a place where violence is acceptable and where domestic chores and duties function as a constant drain.

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  1. School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia

    Lucy I. Baker

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  1. Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

    David Baker

  2. Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia

    Stephanie Green

  3. Jagiellonian University , Krakow, Poland

    Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska

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Baker, L.I. (2017). Fans and Vampires at Home. In: Baker, D., Green, S., Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, A. (eds) Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture. Palgrave Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62782-3_4

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