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Decolonizing the Undead - Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media (Hardcover)
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Decolonizing the Undead - Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media (Hardcover)
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Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives,
Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories
constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its 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, and Iraq, 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
Velázquez Betancourt, Hemendra Kumar Roy, and Manabendra Pal;
works like China Mieville’s Covehithe, Reza Negarestani’s
Cycolonopedia, Julio Ortega’s novel Adiós, Ayacucho, Ahmed
Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad; and films by Alejandro
Brugués, Michael 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 this universally recognized figure of the
undead.
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Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2022 |
Editors: |
Stephen Shapiro
• Giulia Champion
(Early Career Teaching Fellow)
• Roxanne Douglas
(Teaching Fellow, English and Comparative Literary Studies)
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
232 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-27112-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
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LSN: |
1-350-27112-8 |
Barcode: |
9781350271128 |
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