Cultural Diversity and the Alternate History in Kim Newman’s Novel ‎Anno Dracula

Abstract

The paper offers a new insight into the global perception of vampirism as ‎cultural diversity tradition lens in the British writer Kim Newman’s novel Anno ‎Dracula, published in 1992. The historical allusions throughout the novel presents ‎the discourse of intercultural concepts that does not only speak to the Western ‎Dracula tradition and the 19th Century English historical setting but also to our ‎own 21st Century with its multicultural emerging societal relations. In a ‎politically charged destruction of a fictional setting, the writer shows a kind of ‎prevailing evil that defies the existence of mankind. The paper presents different ‎points of view to interpret the role of both historical and fictional characters ‎drawn by the novelist to create an image of horror. The paper also traces the ‎cultural encounters with the Dracula tradition and how far this has contributed to ‎build a political rebellion in a police state that might exist anywhere in the world. ‎