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Informationen zum Autor Christopher M. Moreman is a professor and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at California State University, East Bay. He has published widely on topics relating to death, dying, and popular culture. Cory James Rushton is an associate English professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Klappentext The figure of the zombie is a familiar one in world culture, acting as a metaphor for "the other," a participant in narratives of life and death, good and evil, and of a fate worse than death--the state of being "undead." This book explores the phenomenon from its roots in Haitian folklore to its evolution on the silver screen and to its radical transformation during the 1960s countercultural revolution. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines here examine the zombie and its relationship to colonialism, orientalism, racism, globalism, capitalism and more--including potential signs that the zombie hordes may have finally achieved oversaturation. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. Zusammenfassung "A companion volume to Zombies are us: essays on the humanity of the walking dead! by the same editors."--T.p. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction: Race, Colonialism, and the Evolution of the "Zombie"CORY JAMES RUSHTON and CHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN I-Haitian Origins: Race and the Zombie1. New South, New Immigrants, New Women, New Zombies: The Historical Development of the Zombie in American Popular CultureANN KORDAS 2. Hurston in Haiti: Neocolonialism and ZombificationRITA KERESZTESI 3. Putting the Undead to Work: Wade Davis, Haitian Vodou, and the Social Uses of the ZombieDAVID INGLIS 4. Guess Who's Going to Be Dinner: Sidney Poitier, Black Militancy, and the Ambivalence of Race in Romero's Night of the Living DeadBARBARA S. BRUCE II-The Capital of the Dead5. Time for Zombies: Sacrifice and the Structural Phenomenology of Capitalist FuturesRONJON PAUL DATTA and LAURA MACDONALD 6. Zombified Capital in the Postcolonial Capital: Circulation (of Blood) in Sony Labou Tansi's Parentheses of BloodELIZABETH A. STINSON III-Culturally Transplanted Zombies7. Zombie Orientals Ate My Brain! Orientalism in Contemporary Zombie StoriesERIC HAMAKO 8. Post-9/11 Anxieties: Unpredictability and Complacency in the Age of New Terrorism in Dawn of the Dead (2004)BECKI A. GRAHAM 9. The Rise and Fall-and Rise-of the Nazi Zombie in FilmCYNTHIA J. MILLER 10. Eating Ireland: Zombies, Snakes and Missionaries in Boy Eats GirlCORY JAMES RUSHTON 11. It's So Hard to Get Good Help These Days: Zombies as a Culturally Stabilizing Force in Fido (2006)MICHELE BRAUN IV-The Future of Zombie Understandings12. Zombie Categories, Religion and the New False RationalismEDWARD DUTTON 13. Nothing but Meat? Philosophical Zombies and Their Cinematic CounterpartsDAVE BEISECKER Bibliography Filmography About the Contributors Index ...
