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