Books of the Dead - Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature (Paperback)

The zombie has cropped up in many forms-in film, in television, and as a cultural phenomenon in zombie walks and zombie awareness months-but few books have looked at what the zombie means in fiction. Tim Lanzendoerfer fills this gap by looking at a number of zombie novels, short stories, and comics, and probing what the zombie represents in contemporary literature. Lanzendoerfer brings together the most recent critical discussion of zombies and applies it to a selection of key texts including Max Brooks's World War Z, Colson Whitehead's Zone One, Junot Diaz's short story ""Monstro, "" Robert Kirkman's comic series The Walking Dead, and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Within the context of broader literary culture, Lanzendoerfer makes the case for reading these texts with care and openness in their own right. Lanzendoerfer contends that what zombies do is less important than what becomes possible when they are around. Indeed, they seem less interesting as metaphors for the various ways the world could end than they do as vehicles for how the world might exist in a different and often better form.

General

Imprint:	University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2018
Authors:	Tim Lanzendoerfer
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-4968-2114-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	1-4968-2114-9
Barcode:	9781496821140

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