![]() ![]() Whereas Rusch's liberal critique stops here, a key example of the genre's radical potential is Brite's exploration of self-chosen and unorthodox family structures as a subversive option to the violence of the hegemonic norm. This traditional milieu, with its veneer of order, is often shown to be the breeding place of psychoses and antisocial behaviour, and of cycles of inherited violence. These novels position their characters in suburban locales, where traditional family dynamics and upbringings are the accepted norm and where the inequalities of these structures are perpetuated. Brite's radical subversion contrasts interestingly with Rusch's appeal to less radically reinscribed, liberal values. Brite's Lost Souls (1992) and Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Sins of the Blood (1995). ![]() In this article I will compare the presentation of family violence in Poppy Z. Abstract : Postmodern vampire novels often concern themselves with issues surrounding Western family life. ![]()
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