![]() ![]() In this essay, I examine how the Johannesburg vampire registers the mutations of whiteness in the post-apartheid context. By virtue of its intimate relationship to blood - with its mythical overtones of racial and national essence - and its peculiarly blank and limited form of being, the vampire is a productive figure for imagining whiteness. While recent Johannesburg sf has imagined the emergence of new and more fluid forms of being in Johannesburg, the vampire narrative employs a far older and more restrictive type of monster. ![]() This essay reads two contemporary Johannesburg vampire narratives, the film Eternity (2010) and the graphic novel Rebirth (2012), as part of a body of fiction that sees post-apartheid Johannesburg as a laboratory for new forms of life. ![]()
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