The figure of the zombie is a familiar one in world culture, acting as a metaphor for "the other," a participant in narratives of life and death, good and evil, and of a fate worse than death--the state of being "undead." This book explores the phenomenon from its roots in Haitian folklore to its evolution on the silver screen and to its radical transformation during the 1960s countercultural revolution. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines here examine the zombie and its relationship to colonialism, orientalism, racism, globalism, capitalism and more--including potential signs that…mehr
The figure of the zombie is a familiar one in world culture, acting as a metaphor for "the other," a participant in narratives of life and death, good and evil, and of a fate worse than death--the state of being "undead." This book explores the phenomenon from its roots in Haitian folklore to its evolution on the silver screen and to its radical transformation during the 1960s countercultural revolution. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines here examine the zombie and its relationship to colonialism, orientalism, racism, globalism, capitalism and more--including potential signs that the zombie hordes may have finally achieved oversaturation. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christopher M. Moreman is a professor and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at California State University, East Bay. He has published widely on topics relating to death, dying, and popular culture. Cory James Rushton is an associate English professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Table of Contents Introduction: Race, Colonialism, and the Evolution of the "Zombie" CORY JAMES RUSHTON and CHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN I-Haitian Origins: Race and the Zombie 1. New South, New Immigrants, New Women, New Zombies: The Historical Development of the Zombie in American Popular Culture ANN KORDAS 2. Hurston in Haiti: Neocolonialism and Zombification RITA KERESZTESI 3. Putting the Undead to Work: Wade Davis, Haitian Vodou, and the Social Uses of the Zombie DAVID INGLIS 4. Guess Who's Going to Be Dinner: Sidney Poitier, Black Militancy, and the Ambivalence of Race in Romero's Night of the Living Dead BARBARA S. BRUCE II-The Capital of the Dead 5. Time for Zombies: Sacrifice and the Structural Phenomenology of Capitalist Futures RONJON PAUL DATTA and LAURA MACDONALD 6. Zombified Capital in the Postcolonial Capital: Circulation (of Blood) in Sony Labou Tansi's Parentheses of Blood ELIZABETH A. STINSON III-Culturally Transplanted Zombies 7. Zombie Orientals Ate My Brain! Orientalism in Contemporary Zombie Stories ERIC HAMAKO 8. Post-9/11 Anxieties: Unpredictability and Complacency in the Age of New Terrorism in Dawn of the Dead (2004) BECKI A. GRAHAM 9. The Rise and Fall-and Rise-of the Nazi Zombie in Film CYNTHIA J. MILLER 10. Eating Ireland: Zombies, Snakes and Missionaries in Boy Eats Girl CORY JAMES RUSHTON 11. It's So Hard to Get Good Help These Days: Zombies as a Culturally Stabilizing Force in Fido (2006) MICHELE BRAUN IV-The Future of Zombie Understandings 12. Zombie Categories, Religion and the New False Rationalism EDWARD DUTTON 13. Nothing but Meat? Philosophical Zombies and Their Cinematic Counterparts DAVE BEISECKER Bibliography Filmography About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction: Race, Colonialism, and the Evolution of the "Zombie" CORY JAMES RUSHTON and CHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN I-Haitian Origins: Race and the Zombie 1. New South, New Immigrants, New Women, New Zombies: The Historical Development of the Zombie in American Popular Culture ANN KORDAS 2. Hurston in Haiti: Neocolonialism and Zombification RITA KERESZTESI 3. Putting the Undead to Work: Wade Davis, Haitian Vodou, and the Social Uses of the Zombie DAVID INGLIS 4. Guess Who's Going to Be Dinner: Sidney Poitier, Black Militancy, and the Ambivalence of Race in Romero's Night of the Living Dead BARBARA S. BRUCE II-The Capital of the Dead 5. Time for Zombies: Sacrifice and the Structural Phenomenology of Capitalist Futures RONJON PAUL DATTA and LAURA MACDONALD 6. Zombified Capital in the Postcolonial Capital: Circulation (of Blood) in Sony Labou Tansi's Parentheses of Blood ELIZABETH A. STINSON III-Culturally Transplanted Zombies 7. Zombie Orientals Ate My Brain! Orientalism in Contemporary Zombie Stories ERIC HAMAKO 8. Post-9/11 Anxieties: Unpredictability and Complacency in the Age of New Terrorism in Dawn of the Dead (2004) BECKI A. GRAHAM 9. The Rise and Fall-and Rise-of the Nazi Zombie in Film CYNTHIA J. MILLER 10. Eating Ireland: Zombies, Snakes and Missionaries in Boy Eats Girl CORY JAMES RUSHTON 11. It's So Hard to Get Good Help These Days: Zombies as a Culturally Stabilizing Force in Fido (2006) MICHELE BRAUN IV-The Future of Zombie Understandings 12. Zombie Categories, Religion and the New False Rationalism EDWARD DUTTON 13. Nothing but Meat? Philosophical Zombies and Their Cinematic Counterparts DAVE BEISECKER Bibliography Filmography About the Contributors Index
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