Sex, race and Romanticism: The meta-vampire in emo fandom

The genealogy stretching from Romanticism to the tortured poets of emotional hardcore music scene is by now well established. Emotional hardcore, or emo, invested in construction usually White male artist, a sensitive and creative being subject great deal suffering – as result both his artistic nature external forces aligned against him. European Romantics invented concept artist cultural icon Lord Byron often considered Britain’s first celebrity. He was also, not coincidentally, literary vampire. This article utilizes discursive analysis based open coding consider emo fandom’s obsession with figure vampire, especially what fans who are mostly girls have done it fanfic. Considering gendered problematic gender politics scene, I explore how constraints opportunities these structures influence ways imagine vampires, appear so their writing. Picking out key themes sex, race ethics vampire inherited fandom literature generally, argue that selected sample demonstrates transformative impulse towards which ultimately still contained overarching within artists operate.