Introduction
Part1: Indigenous (within which “vampiric” indigenous lore plays a significant part in contemporary identity)
1. MALAYSIA - Pontianak: A Vampire-ghost from the Malay World; 2. PHILIPPINES - Vampires, Gender, and Monstrosity in the Philippines: The Aswang in Tim Muñoz’s Don Filipo (2021); 3. THAILAND - A Girl Named Krasue: Abjection and Vampirism in Inhuman Kiss; 4. INDIA - Visualizing the Grotesque: An Investigation of Abject Selves of the Rakta Pisacha in Parimal Bhattacharya’s Nishi Trishna; 5. INDIGENOUS AMERICAN -“Feral” Females, Werewolf Wives: Indigenous Femininity in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga; 6. JAPAN - Living in a Cursed World: Studio Ghibli’s Cosmic Metabolism
Part2: Self Identity (within which vampires are signifiers of contemporary identity positions)
7. ITALY - To Each Country Its Own Vampires: Amando de Ossorio’s Horror-Thriller Hybrid Malenka (1969); 8. BRAZIL - Sex and Blood in the Tropical Heat: As Sete Vampiras [The Seven Vampires] and Ivan Cardoso’s “Terrir”; 9. BELGIUM -The Belgian Vampire In Context: Vampires as a Dark Reflection of Belgian Society; 10. HUNGARY - Embodying an Undead Nation: The Political Vampire in Hungarian Fantastic Narratives; 11. ISRAEL - Blood, Myth, and Identity: A Comparative Study of the Jewish-Israeli Vampire and the Western Vampire Tradition; 12. TÜRKIYE -Bloodlines and Borders: Cultural Translation in Turkish Vampire Cinema
Part3: Postcolonialism (within which vampires embody negotiations between contemporary identity positions with a colonial past)
13. RUSSIA - Guardians of the Night, or the Russian Mental Mapping of the World; 14. AUSTRIA-Vampire as Imperial Construct: Therapy for a Vampire and Austrian Heritage; 15. FRANCE - Postcolonial Fantasies of Violence: Bleeding Out the Other in France (1896-1973); 16. SOUTH AFRICA - The Apartheid Undead: Kenneth Kaplan’s Pure Blood;
17. IRAN - Iranian Vampires: Iranian Vampires: Derakula Walks Home Alone Under the Shadow of Orientalism; 18. AFRICAN AMERICAN & IRELAND - “I am your way out”; Index