Dracula provides a model, replicated in later works, for the emergence of hybridity as the character of the future and of modern experience. In this regard, the mixed blood of Mina Harker’s child at the book’s end is comparable to the mixed character of the foetus carried by Lilith Lyapo, the protagonist of Octavia Butler’s science fiction novel Dawn (1987), after her sexual encounters with an alien. It is an open question whether the cultural anxieties that underlie both Dracula and Dawn have altered or abated significantly in the past hundred years.

XREF: Connects Dracula's hybrid figure to Butler's Dawn, showing a cross-century literary lineage around cultural otherness.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 559