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Vampire Aliens in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Dracula
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This paper explores how itinerants, particularly gypsies, strangers, and vagrants, are represented as criminals to imprison and vampires to get rid of, in S. T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Coleridge and Stoker allow to some extent the presence of itinerants, wanderers, and gypsies in the marginal area of their society as the comforting other, with their ambivalent attitudes, pity and disgust, toward them. If Coleridge, however, allows the Mariner to speak wandering “from land to land,” Stoker creates an international war between the Western European settlers and the Eastern European nomads and makes the Western hunters silence the immigrant Dracula’s voice, finally banishing and staking him into his home country. Most researches on Dracula consider the existence of Szgany gypsies as a minor figure even when Dracula identifies himself as one of the descendents of the Huns, the nomadic people. Szgany gypsies apparently fight for Dracula as loyal servants. I read, however, Dracula as a signifier for the gypsies’ nomadic culture. This paper explores the Szagany gypsies’ relation with Dracula, tracing the British imperialistic middle-class xenophobia to get rid of gypsies and nomadic strangers. It also examines strong echoes and resemblances between Dracula and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Christabel.”
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This paper explores how itinerants, particularly gypsies, strangers, and vagrants, are represented as criminals to imprison and vampires to get rid of, in S. T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Coleridge and Stoker allow to some extent the presence of itinerants, wanderers, and gypsies in the marginal area of their society as the comforting other, with their ambivalent attitudes, pity and disgust, toward them. If Coleridge, however, allows the Mariner to speak wandering “from land to land,” Stoker creates an international war between the Western European settlers and the Eastern European nomads and makes the Western hunters silence the immigrant Dracula’s voice, finally banishing and staking him into his home country. Most researches on Dracula consider the existence of Szgany gypsies as a minor figure even when Dracula identifies himself as one of the descendents of the Huns, the nomadic people. Szgany gypsies apparently fight for Dracula as loyal servants. I read, however, Dracula as a signifier for the gypsies’ nomadic culture. This paper explores the Szagany gypsies’ relation with Dracula, tracing the British imperialistic middle-class xenophobia to get rid of gypsies and nomadic strangers. It also examines strong echoes and resemblances between Dracula and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Christabel.”
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