Research Catalog

Title

Race, oppression and the zombie : essays on cross-cultural appropriations of the Caribbean tradition / edited by Christopher M. Moreman and Cory James Rushton.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moreman, Christopher M., 1974-
• Rushton, Cory.

Description

viii, 232 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

"This book explores numerous aspects of the zombie phenomenon, from its roots in Haitian folklore, to its evolution on the silver screen, to its most radical transformation during the 1960s countercultural revolution. Contributors examine the zombie and its relationship to colonialism, orientalism, racism, globalism, capitalism and more"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Caribbean Area > Race relations
• Caribbean Area > Social conditions
• Caribbean Area > History
• Folklore > Caribbean Area
• Zombies > History
• Zombies > Social aspects

Note

• "A companion volume to Zombies are us: essays on the humanity of the walking dead, by the same editors."--T.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Haitian origins: race and the zombie. New south, new immigrants, new women, new zombies: the historical development of the zombie in American popular culture / Ann Kordas -- Hurston in Haiti: neocolonialism and zombification / Rita Keresztesi -- Putting the undead to work: Wade Davis, Haitian Vodou, and the social uses of the zombie / David Inglis -- Guess who's going to be dinner: Sidney Poitier, Black militancy, and the ambivalence of race in Romero's Night of the Living Dead / Barbara S. Bruce -- Pt. 2. The Capital of the dead. Time for zombies: sacrifice and the structural phenomenology of capitalist futures / Ronjon Paul Data and Laura Macdonald -- Zombified capital in the postcolonial capital: circulation (of blood) in Sony Labou Tansi's Parentheses of Blood / Elizabeth A. Stinson -- Pt. 3. Culturally transplanted zombies. Zombie Orientals ate my brain! Orientalism in contemporary zombie stories / Eric Hamako -- Post-9/11 Anxieties: unpredictability and complacency in the age of new terrorism in Dawn of the Dead (2004) / Becki A. Graham -- The rise and fall -- and rise -- of the Nazi zombie in film / Cynthia J. Miller -- Eating Ireland: zombies, snakes and missionaries in boy eats girl / Cory James Rushton -- It's so hard to get good help these days: zombies as a culturally stabilizing force in Fido (2006) / Michele Braun -- Pt. 4. The future of zombie understandings. Zombie categories, religion and the new false rationalism / Edward Dutton -- Nothing but meat? Philosophical zombies and their cinematic counterparts / Dave Beisecker.

ISBN

• 9780786459117 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786459115 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011021467

OCLC

• 714086537
• SCSB-12227725

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library