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  • 1
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    New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press
    ISBN: 9780813568836 , 9780813568843
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 263 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Series Statement: American literatures initiative
    DDC: 398.21
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    Keywords: Zombies History ; Zombies History ; Zombie ; Nordamerika ; Karibik ; Nordamerika ; Karibik ; Zombie
    Abstract: "Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth's migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of storytelling, reminding us of the power of myths and mythmaking, and the high stakes of appropriation and homage. Beginning with an account of a probable ancestor of the zombie found in the Kongolese and Angolan regions of seventeenth-century Africa and ending with a description of the way, in contemporary culture, new media are used to facilitate zombie-themed events, Sarah Juliet Lauro plots the zombie's cultural significance through Caribbean literature, Haitian folklore, and American literature, film, and the visual arts. The zombie entered US consciousness through the American occupation of Haiti, the site of an eighteenth-century slave rebellion that became a war for independence, thus making the figuration of living death inseparable from its resonances with both slavery and rebellion. Lauro bridges African mythology and US mainstream culture by articulating the ethical complications of the zombie's invocation as a cultural conquest that was rebranded for the American cinema. As The Transatlantic Zombie shows, the zombie is not merely a bogeyman representing the ills of modern society, but a battleground over which a cultural war has been fought between the imperial urge to absorb exotic, threatening elements, and the originary, Afro-disaporic culture's preservation through a strategy of mythic combat"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2015]
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781118733240 , 9781118733257
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 295 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Series Statement: The American history series
    Parallel Title: Online version "Times are altered with us
    DDC: 970.004/97
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    Keywords: Indians of North America History ; Indians of North America First contact with Europeans ; Indians of North America Colonization ; History ; Indians of North America Government relations ; History ; Social change History ; United States Ethnic relations ; History ; United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; North America Ethnic relations ; History ; Nordamerika ; Indianer ; Kulturkontakt ; Europäer ; Geschichte 1492-1800 ; USA ; Indianerpolitik ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Geschichte 1492-1800
    Abstract: "Times Are Altered with Us : American Indians from Contact to the New Republic offers a concise and engaging introduction to the turbulent 300-year-period of the history of Native Americans and their interactions with Europeans--and then Americans--from 1492 to 1800. Considers the interactions of American Indians at many points of 'First Contact' across North America, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts Explores the early years of contact, trade, reciprocity, and colonization, from initial engagement of different Indian and European peoples--Spanish, French, Dutch, English, and Russian--up to the start of tenuous and stormy relations with the new American government. Charts the rapid decline in American Indian populations due to factors including epidemic Old World diseases, genocide and warfare by explorers and colonists, tribal warfare, and the detrimental effects of resource ruination and displacement from traditional lands. Features a completely up-to-date synthesis of the literature of the field. Incorporates useful student features, including maps, illustrations, and a comprehensive and evaluative Bibliographical Essay. Written in an engaging style by an expert in Native American history and designed for use in both the U.S. history survey as well as dedicated courses in Native American studies"--
    Description / Table of Contents: 1492 and BeforeEncountering the Spanish -- Encounters with the French -- English and Native people in the Southeast -- Native Americans in New England -- The Five Nations, the Dutch, and the Iroquois Wars -- Seeking a Middle Ground -- The Imperial Wars -- Pontiac's Rebellion -- The Great Plains and the Far West -- Native Americans and the American Revolution -- Coping with the New Republic.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Book
    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9780822359388 , 9780822359197
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 213 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Soziale Situation ; Überwachung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Nordamerika ; Afroamerikaner
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [191]-202
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  • 4
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    Book
    Washington : Government Print. Office | New York : Columbia University Press
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Indianersprachen ; Nordamerika ; Nordamerika ; Indianersprachen
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