Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Twilight at 20: the many afterlives of Stephenie Meyer’s vampires

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Sarah Olive, Senior Lecturer in Literature, Aston University

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Stephenie Meyer’s novel, Twilight. The book series of the same name has sold over 160 million copies, been translated into 38 languages and adapted into five blockbuster films.

Vampires are perennially popular, largely because we make and remake them to help us address our social concerns and fears. As author Nina Auerbach argues in her 1995 book Our Vampires, Ourselves: “We make the vampires…

Lire l'article complet