La magie (blanche) des vampires de La Nouvelle‑Orléans : reconfigurations de l’autorité blanche dans The Originals

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone

关键词: The Originals;    vampires;    whiteness;    soap opera;    gothic;   

DOI  :  10.4000/miranda.43922

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Produced as a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries (Julie Plec, The CW, 2009‑2017), The Originals (The CW, 2013-2018) depicts the return of the Mikaelsons, the white Nordic vampires Elijah, Rebekah and Klaus, to New Orleans. As they seek to take back control of the city, they face other supernatural groups, notably another vampire community led by a Black leader and an assembly of Latina witches. The power relations between the different supernatural groups are fluctuating and constantly renegociated, according to the narrative logic of the soap opera (Modleski, 1990), and are given a cultural dimension (Guitar, 2015). Focusing on the conflicts between the different communities, The Originals shows how white authority is defied by racial Others with whom it must compromise in order to renegociate and reimpose its hegemony. Using the framework of white critical studies (Dyer, 1997) and post-colonial studies (Loomba, 1995), as well as a generic perspective on the gothic (Botting, 1996) and the soap opera (Allen, 1995), this paper examines the conditions of white authority in the first season of The Originals. It focuses first on how the white norm can no longer remain invisible in the face of other supernatural races. It then examines the figure of the vampire and its relations with whiteness. Finally, it analyzes how the instability that characterizes the Mikaelsons’ power is in fact the ultimate condition for their supernatural, narrative and political authority.

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