This morning, THE GIAOUR Composer Jono Podmore sent me this article (by Sam George, University of He

This morning, THE GIAOUR Composer Jono Podmore sent me this article (by Sam George, University of Hertfordshire, THE CONVERSATION, October 30, 2020): The First American Vampire was Black, and a Revolutionary. Soon after the publication of John Polidori’s THE VAMPYRE – falsely credited to Lord Byron – in 1819, an “American answer” appeared. THE BLACK VAMPYRE (1819) tells of a slave owner, a Mr. Personne in St. Domingue, who tries to murder a Black child and himself perishes in fire. Years later, his widow meets an “extemely handsome Black man dressed as a Moorish prince” and falls in love. “Mr. Personne” can be a Mr. Person. But “personne” in a sentence can mean “nobody.” Yes, both blood and re-animated corpses figure here. Zombies were the single-most significant cinematic (horror) invention in the second half of the 20th century that they eventually influenced the same from the first: the vampires. The fangs got bigger and bigger, until it was no longer believable that they belonged to beings who subsisted on a liquid diet. The same ideas that were evident in Europe are here: where “cultures” clash, one group tries to dehumanize the other, and the other fights back. The prince in THE BLACK VAMPYRE addresses the crowd: “Our fetters discarded, and our chains dissolved, we shall stand liberated, redeemed, – emancipated, – and disenthralled by the irresistible genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION!!” BLACK VAMPYRE, NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE (Uriah Derick D'Arcy/Richard Varick Dey, 1801-37), London, April 1819 Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803), Haitian Revolutionary leader Eduard Charlemont (1848–1906), The Moorish Chief, 1878 Regé-Jean Page in Regency costume (BRIDGERTON) ⚰️ #vampire #vampyre #zombie #reanimation #theblackvampyre #thefirstamericanvampire #lordbyron #thegiaour #thevampyre #johnpolidori #villadiodati #halloween #gothic #stdomingo #santodomingo #haitianrevolution #kumo #jonopodmore https://www.instagram.com/p/CVpE_aYrLFM/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link

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