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The Letters of Mina Harker
The Letters of Mina Harker
by Dodie Bellamy foreword by Dennis Cooper
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-299-20673-4 | Paper: 978-0-299-20674-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3552.E5319L47 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Dodie Bellamy's imagined "sequel" to Bram Stoker's fin de siècle masterpiece Dracula, Van Helsing's plain Jane secretarial adjunct, Mina Harker, is recast as a sexual, independent woman living in San Francisco in the 1980s. The vampire Mina Harker, who possesses the body of author Dodie Bellamy, confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four vastly different men through past letters. Simultaneously, a plague is let loose in San Francisco-the plague of AIDS.
Bigger-than-life, half goddess, half Bette Davis, Mina sends letter after letter to friends and co-conspirators, holding her reader captive through a display of illusion and longing. Juggling quivering vulnerability on one hand and gossip on the other, Mina spoofs and consumes and spews back up demented reembodiments of trash media and high theory alike. It's all fodder for her ravenous libido and "a messy ambiguous place where pathology meets pleasure." Sensuous and captivating, The Letters of Mina Harker describes one woman's struggles finding the right words to explain her desires and fears without confining herself to one identity.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dodie Bellamy is the author of many books, including her latest, Pink Steam. She lives in San Francisco.
REVIEWS
"The Letters of Mina Harker unfurls like a red velvet carpet wilkomming you to a house of horrors. And the more you succumb, the more that red carpet begins to resemble a thick wet tongue, slicking you up for the ride down the hot narrow throat of postmodern narrative."—Traci Vogel, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Dodie Bellamy writes a brilliant gossip and if there’s anything better than literature this is it. Writing that’s pageless, so insinuating, above and below board, luscious deeply fucked up extravagant work. It looks good from here."—Eileen Myles
"Dodie Bellamy’s The Letters of Mina Harker gets rid of the question of fact versus fiction, while also being ravishing, not to mention totally aloof and needy at the same time."—The Village Voice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
July 3, 1986
July 30, 1986
August 26, 1986
March 16, 1987
December 29, 1988
October 10, 1989
January 6, 1990
November 5, 1990
February 7, 1991
October 22, 1991
February 14, 1992
October 31, 1992
November 17, 1992
January 8, 1993
June 3, 1993
August 22, 1993
January 28, 1994
October 17, 1994
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