When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very
existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture:
corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the
fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes
roiled Europe. They walked in images from World War I, when a
generation died horribly in the trenches. They walked in art
inspired by the Holocaust and by the atomic attacks on Japan. Now,
in the early twenty-first century, the dead walk in stories of the
zombie apocalypse, some of the most ubiquitous narratives of
post-9/11 Western culture. Zombies appear in popular movies and
television shows, comics and graphic novels, fiction, games, art,
and in material culture including pinball machines, zombie runs,
and lottery tickets. The zombie apocalypse, Greg Garrett shows us,
has become an archetypal narrative for the contemporary world, in
part because zombies can stand in for any of a variety of global
threats, from terrorism to Ebola, from economic uncertainty to
ecological destruction. But this zombie narrative also brings us
emotional and spiritual comfort. These apocalyptic stories, in
which the world has been turned upside down and protagonists face
the prospect of an imminent and grisly death, can also offer us
wisdom about living in a community, present us with real-world
ethical solutions, and invite us into conversation about the value
and costs of survival. We may indeed be living with the living dead
these days, but through the stories we consume and the games we
play, we are paradoxically learning what it means to be fully
alive.
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