Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries
Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga and Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries both portray a romance between a human female and a male vampire, borrowing many conventions from romance novels and Gothic fiction. Both series introduce a new breed of vampires that refrain from drinking human blood,...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)
2011-10-01
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| description | Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga and Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries both portray a romance between a human female and a male vampire, borrowing many conventions from romance novels and Gothic fiction. Both series introduce a new breed of vampires that refrain from drinking human blood, betraying the traditional image of vampires as sexually transgressive creatures. The romantic plotlines between the heroines and those safe vampire heroes reflect contemporary women’s lowered sense of danger concerning sexuality and heightened sense of danger in terms of the boundaries of self, yet each of the series shows a completely different development from each other. Twilight ends with a fairytale ending free from worries and responsibilities, while Sookie of the Southern Vampire Mysteries realizes that her safe hero is not safe after all, and that she has to reconsider her perception of sexuality and self in order to negotiate the risk of contemporary romance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-83bca87f64f44359a2b9e365c36e11ba2024-02-12T19:12:56ZengInternational Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)Journal of Popular Romance Studies2159-44732011-10-0121117Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire MysteriesChiho Nakagawa Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga and Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries both portray a romance between a human female and a male vampire, borrowing many conventions from romance novels and Gothic fiction. Both series introduce a new breed of vampires that refrain from drinking human blood, betraying the traditional image of vampires as sexually transgressive creatures. The romantic plotlines between the heroines and those safe vampire heroes reflect contemporary women’s lowered sense of danger concerning sexuality and heightened sense of danger in terms of the boundaries of self, yet each of the series shows a completely different development from each other. Twilight ends with a fairytale ending free from worries and responsibilities, while Sookie of the Southern Vampire Mysteries realizes that her safe hero is not safe after all, and that she has to reconsider her perception of sexuality and self in order to negotiate the risk of contemporary romance.https://www.jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9csafe-sex-with-defanged-vampires-new-vampire-heroes-in-twilight-and-the-southern-vampire-mysteries%e2%80%9d-by-chiho-nakagawa/boundaries of selfchiho nakagawagothichero‐villainssouthern vampire mysteriestwilightvampire fiction |
| spellingShingle | Chiho Nakagawa Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies boundaries of self chiho nakagawa gothic hero‐villains southern vampire mysteries twilight vampire fiction |
| title | Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries |
| title_full | Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries |
| title_fullStr | Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries |
| title_short | Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries |
| title_sort | safe sex with defanged vampires new vampire heroes in twilight and the southern vampire mysteries |
| topic | boundaries of self chiho nakagawa gothic hero‐villains southern vampire mysteries twilight vampire fiction |
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