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This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural
commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for
cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what
price? What ethical and political conundrums does the
artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume
analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic,
or linguistic - has become such a prominent element in the
contemporary cultural field, and the effects of this prevalence on
the production, circulation and reception of cultural commodities
in the context of globalization. At the intersection of
globalization, diaspora, postcolonial and feminist studies in world
literature, these essays engage critically with a wide variety of
representative narratives taken from diverse cultural fields,
including humanitarian fiction, multilingual poetry, painting,
text-image art, performance art, film, documentary, and
docu-poetry. The chapters included offer counter-readings that
disrupt hegemonic representations of cultural identity within the
contemporary, neoliberal and globalized landscape.
This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural
commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for
cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what
price? What ethical and political conundrums does the
artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume
analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic,
or linguistic - has become such a prominent element in the
contemporary cultural field, and the effects of this prevalence on
the production, circulation and reception of cultural commodities
in the context of globalization. At the intersection of
globalization, diaspora, postcolonial and feminist studies in world
literature, these essays engage critically with a wide variety of
representative narratives taken from diverse cultural fields,
including humanitarian fiction, multilingual poetry, painting,
text-image art, performance art, film, documentary, and
docu-poetry. The chapters included offer counter-readings that
disrupt hegemonic representations of cultural identity within the
contemporary, neoliberal and globalized landscape.
They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on
moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of
identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have
emerged from the lurking shadows of society s fringes to wander the
sacred halls of the academy, feasting on tender minds and hurling
rot across our intellectual landscape. It is time to unite in
common cause, to shore up defenses, firm up critical and analytical
resources, and fortify crumbling lines of inquiry. Responding to
this call, Brain Workers from the Zombie Research Center poke and
prod the rotting corpus of zombie culture trying to make sense of
cult classics and the unstoppable growth of new and even more
disturbing work. They exhume "zombie theory" and decaying
historical documents from America, Europe, and the Caribbean in
order to unearth the zombie world and arm readers with the brain
tools necessary for everyday survival. Readers will see that zombie
culture today "lives" in shapes as mutable as a zombie horde and is
often just as violent."
They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on
moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of
identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have
emerged from the lurking shadows of society s fringes to wander the
sacred halls of the academy, feasting on tender minds and hurling
rot across our intellectual landscape. It is time to unite in
common cause, to shore up defenses, firm up critical and analytical
resources, and fortify crumbling lines of inquiry. Responding to
this call, Brain Workers from the Zombie Research Center poke and
prod the rotting corpus of zombie culture trying to make sense of
cult classics and the unstoppable growth of new and even more
disturbing work. They exhume "zombie theory" and decaying
historical documents from America, Europe, and the Caribbean in
order to unearth the zombie world and arm readers with the brain
tools necessary for everyday survival. Readers will see that zombie
culture today "lives" in shapes as mutable as a zombie horde and is
often just as violent."
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