Anne Rice and the Queering of Culture
1998; Duke University Press; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1346054
ISSN1945-8509
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoAt the climax of her recent novel Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice dramatizes her witty arch-enemy's fall from grace. Unlike any codified story of Satan's rebellion, however, Memnoch falls because of his desire for things human and indeed his desire for a human female. This may strike the readers of Rice's Vampire Chronicles as a surprising turn. More surprising, even shocking, is this creature's celebration of the family. Here is Memnoch's challenge to God: went down and I looked into the family ... I saw the family as a new and unprecedented flower, Lord, a blossom of emotion and intellect that in its tenderness was cut loose from the stems of Nature from which it had taken its nourishment, and was now at the mercy of the wind. Love, Lord, I saw it, I felt Love of Men and Women for one another and for their Children (241). Rather than feel that the
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