Interview with the Vampire uses vampirism to reveal fantasies & fears of the social contagiousness of interracial & homosexual desires.
Tavia Nyong’o
Tavia Nyong’o is William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale University and author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (New York University Press, 2018). He is completing a short introduction to afro-futurism and a study of the racial reckoning in art and performance. 