ISBN:
9781350271159
,
9781350271142
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 224 Seiten)
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Keywords:
Zombies
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Zombies in literature
;
Zombies in motion pictures
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Zombies in mass media
;
Zombies in popular culture
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature
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Fantasy
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Abstract:
"Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing it's cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial and Neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film and television from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Japan, Iraq and Ireland, this book explores how the undead reflect a plethora of experiences previously obscured by western preoccupations and anxieties. These include embodiment and dismemberment in Haitian revolutionary contexts; resistance and subversion to social realities in the Caribbean and Latin America; symbiosis of cultural historical traditions with Western popular culture; the undead as feminist figures; as an allegory for migrant workers; as a critique to reconfigure socio-ecological relations between humans and nature; and as a means of voicing the plurality of stories from destroyed cities and war-zones. Interspersed with contextual explorations of the zombie narrative in American culture such as zombie walks and the television series The Santa Clarita Diet, contributors examine such writers as Lowell R. Torres, Diego Velz̀quez Betancourt, Hemendra Kumar Roy and Manabendra Pal; works like China Mieville's Covehithe , Reza Negarestani's Cycolonopedia, Julio Ortega's novel Adiós, Ayacucho , Ahmad Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad; and films by Alejandro Brugués, Michaell James Rowland, Steve McQueen and many others. Far from just another zombie project, this is a vital study that teases out the important conversations among numerous cultures and nations embodied in the this universally recognized figure of the dead."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Giulia Champion and Roxanne Douglas (University of Warwick, UK) -- Section I: Thinking Zombies. 1. ''Il y a des zombies dans ceci...': Dessalines, Disembodiment, and Early Haitian Literature? / Elizabeth Kelly (Florida Polytechnic University, USA) ; 2. "White and Black Zombies: How Race Rewrites the Zombie Narrative" / Cécile Accilien (University of Kansas, USA) ; 3. "Decolonizing the Zombie: I Walked with a Zombie's Critique of Centrist Liberalism / Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK) Section II: Zombie World-System ; 4. 'Samurai Zombies: Japan's Undead Past' / Frank Jacob (Nord Universitet, Norway) ; 5. 'Crude Monsters and Fossilised Sentience: The Creaturely and Ecological Zombie' / Josephine Taylor (Royal Holloway, UK) ; 6. 'Undead, Undeader, Undeadest: Narrating the Unevenness of Ecological Crisis in Nana Nkweti's 'It Just Kills You Inside'' / Fiona Farnsworth (University of Warwick, UK) ; 7. 'Zombie Proletkino: Labour, Race and Genre in Pedro Costa's Casa de Lava' / Thomas Waller (University of Nottingham, UK) ; 8. ''It Feels Like I'm Giving My Body Something It Needs in an Intense and Powerful Way': Santa Clarita Diet and the Feminist Encounter with Binge/Menopause/Pleasure Politics' / Roxanne Douglas (University of Warwick, UK) -- Section III: The Zombie Decolonial. 9. 'Beyond Nature and the (Post)Human: Aesthetics of De/Zombification in African Speculative Fiction' / Rebecca Duncan (Linnaeus University, Sweden) ; 10. 'Undead Space and the Wounds of Iraq: The Zombie in Ahmad Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad' / Netty Mattar (The International Islamic University of Malaysia) ; 11. ''First They Bring the HIV, Then the Zombie': Portrayal of the West in contemporary Indian zombie literature and cinema' / Abhirup Mascharak (Jadavpur University, India) ; 12. 'Indigenous Fragmented Corporeality and Migration in the Manchay Tiempo in Julio Ortega's Adio's, Ayacucho (1986)' / Giulia Champion (University of Warwick, UK) -- Afterword: Decolonizing Zombie Cultural Practice / Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5040/9781350271159
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