![]() Lestat's experience of the human flesh is different from Talbot's, and in fact does more to constitute identity as gender and sexuality than as race. ![]() Talbot’s own becoming-other, and becoming-vampire thereafter, are instances of both general and specific racialized embodiment. After establishing the gender and sexuality work accomplished by Lestat’s body-switching, the paper examines David Talbot's switch into a young male body himself. The complexity of the relationships that shift and multiply between desire, race, sexuality and otherness is captured most strikingly in the fourth novel of the series, Tale of the Body Thief. ![]() ![]() In the process of erasing actual racial differences through the "Dark Gift," Rice relies on embodiments of ethnicity and racial specificity in her management of gay male desire (a major factor in her popularity). Becoming a vampire constitutes an essence, a shared material difference that is not something humans can come close to understanding. The vampire/human split in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles is structured like a racial split. ![]()
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