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Sarah Juliet Lauro is assistant professor of English at the University of Tampa. She is author of The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Resistance, and Living-Death and coeditor of Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human.
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Contents
Introduction: Wander and Wonder in Zombieland
Sarah Juliet Lauro
Part I. Old Schools: Classic Zombies
1. Contagious Allegories: George Romero
Steven Shaviro
2. Zombie TV: Late-Night B Movie Horror Fest
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
3. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War
Priscilla Wald
4. Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies
Elizabeth McAlister
5. Slavoj Žižek, the Death Drive, and Zombies: A Theological Account
Ola Sigurdson
Part II. Capitalist Monsters
6. Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope
Jen Webb and Samuel Byrnand
7. Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia
David McNally
8. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism
Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
9. Zombies of Immaterial Labor: The Modern Monster and the Consumption of the Self
Lars Bang Larsen
10. Abject Posthumanism: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Zombies
Sherryl Vint
Part III. Zombies and Other(ed) People
11. Zombie Race
Edward P. Comentale
12. Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film
Barry Keith Grant
13. Dead and Live Life: Zombies, Queers, and Online Sociality
Shaka McGlotten
14. Dead and Disabled: The Crawling Monsters of The Walking Dead
Anna Mae Duane
15. Trouble with Zombies: Muselmänner, Bare Life, and Displaced People
Jon Stratton
Part IV. Zombies in the Street
Preface: In Memoriam: The Toronto Zombie Walk (2003–2015)
Sarah Juliet Lauro
16. Zombie London: Unexceptionalities of the New World Order
Fred Botting
17. Spooks of Biopower: The Uncanny Carnivalesque of Zombie Walks
Simon Orpana
18. The Scene of Occupation
Tavia Nyong’o
19. The Walking Dead and Killing State: Zombification and the Normalization of Police Violence
Travis Linnemann, Tyler Wall, and Edward Green
Part V. New Life for the Undead
20. Nekros: or, The Poetics of Biopolitics
Eugene Thacker
21. Grey: A Zombie Ecology
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
22. A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism
Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry
23. “We Arethe Walking Dead”: Race, Time, and Survival in Zombie Narrative
Gerry Canavan
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Previous Publications
Further Reading
Index
About the author
Sarah Juliet Lauro is assistant professor of English at the University of Tampa. She is author of The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Resistance, and Living-Death and coeditor of Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human.
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