This edited collection brings together an introduction and 13
original scholarly essays on AMC's The Walking Dead. The first
group of essays addresses the pervasive bloodletting of the series:
What are the consequences of the series' unremitting violence?
Essays explore violence committed in self-defence, racist violence,
mass lawlessness, the violence of law enforcement, the violence of
mourning, and the violence of history. The second half of the
collection explores an equally urgent question: What does it mean
to be human? Several of the essays argue that notions of the human
must acknowledge the centrality of the body-the fact that we share
a ""blind corporeality"" with the zombie. Other essays address how
the human is closely aligned with language and time, the
disappearance of which are represented by the aphasic, mindless
zombie. Underlying each essay are the game-changing words of
Walking Dead's protagonist Rick Grimes to the other survivors:
""We're all infected."" The violence of the zombie is also our
violence; their blind drives are also ours. The human characters of
The Walking Dead may try to define themselves against the zombies
but in the end their bodies harbor the zombie virus: they are the
walking dead.
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