Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the
low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as
undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living
Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in
global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows
in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to
low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie’s
ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties—ecological
disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism—has
ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has
precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international
scholarship. Zombie studies manifested across academic
disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into
sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even
epidemiology. Zombie Theory collects the best interdisciplinary
zombie scholarship from around the world. Essays portray the zombie
not as a singular cultural figure or myth but show how the undead
represent larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of
contagion and technology, the effect of capitalism and
commodification, racial exclusion and oppression, dehumanization.
As presented here, zombies are not simple metaphors; rather, they
emerge as a critical mode for theoretical work. With its diverse
disciplinary and methodological approaches, Zombie Theory thinks
through what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to
the world and to each other. Contributors: Fred Botting, Kingston
U; Samuel Byrnand, U of Canberra; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U;
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington U; Jean Comaroff, Harvard
U; John Comaroff, Harvard U; Edward P. Comentale, Indiana U; Anna
Mae Duane, U of Connecticut; Karen Embry, Portland Community
College; Barry Keith Grant, Brock U; Edward Green, Roosevelt U;
Lars Bang Larsen; Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky U; Elizabeth
McAlister, Wesleyan U; Shaka McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY;
David McNally, York U; Tayla Nyong’o, Yale U; Simon Orpana, U of
Alberta; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Ola Sigurdson, U of
Gothenburg; Jon Stratton, U of South Australia; Eugene Thacker, The
New School; Sherryl Vint, U of California Riverside; Priscilla
Wald, Duke U; Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky U; Jen Webb, U of
Canberra; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U.
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