cloudsinvenice:

i-want-my-iwtv:

katzenfabrik replied to your post: anonymous said:So, David is an or…

I think the body’s original owner is described as Anglo-Indian, a term that makes me think of the British Raj, though Wikipedia says it’s still in use today.

mickimonster said:

he was either pakistani or indian

epicureanmarius said:

the body belonged to the son of indian immigrants [if I am not mistaken. idk, read that book a month ago but not very carefully]

Does anyone remember the first time it’s mentioned? If you don’t mind sending me a quote, just curious. Just can’t find it myself 😛

Some people of mixed English and Indian descent self-describe as Anglo-Indian; I’m thinking of a friend of my mother’s in this case. But that’s not to say that’s what Anne Rice meant in this instance – I’m digging through the text online but no luck finding the quote so far.

However! I did find an academic paper that, at a glance, looks super-relevant: 

Becoming-Other: (Dis)Embodiments of Race in Anne Rice’s Tale of the Body Thief – Trevor Holmes, University of Guelph: http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2006/v/n44/014004ar.html

cloudsinvenice: #vampire chronicles, #david talbot, #the tale of the body thief, #i get that it’s super bad form to delete stuff from posts you reblog but I took out the question with the racist slur, #because what the fucking fuck

Thanks for answering that, will have to read that article, I’m intrigued that someone tackled it as a subject!

Also, re: your other good point in your tags, I should have deleted that racist thing myself, but when I published that question I addressed in my response that the term is deragotory. I published it bc it did raise the question regarding how David must have felt about being a different ethnicity.