Read more
From Victor Halperin's White Zombie (1932) to George A. Romero's landmark Night of the Living Dead (1968) and AMC's hugely successful The Walking Dead (2010-), zombie mythology has become an integral part of popular culture. In a reversal of the typical pattern of adaptation, the zombie developed onscreen before appearing in short stories and comic books during the 20th century, and more recently as subjects of more traditional novels. This collection of new essays examines some of the most influential and inventive zombie literature, from the early stories to the most recent narratives, including some told from a zombie perspective.
List of contents
Table of ContentsPreface: A Note from the Editors
Introduction: The Rise of the Written Dead (Angela Tenga and Kyle William Bishop)
Section One: Zombie Literature-First Words, Baby Steps
Trailing the Zombie Through Modern and Contemporary
Anglophone Literature (Kevin Alexander Boon)
The Attributes and Qualifiers of Literary Zombies (Bernard Perron)
Love, Connection and Intimacy in Zombie Short Fiction (Laura Hubner)
Section Two: Max Brooks-Rite of Passage
Analyzing Late Modernity with a Corpse: Max Brooks'
Zombie Understanding of Modernity (Marcus Leaning)
Dispatches of the Dead: World War Z and the Post-Vietnam
Combat Memoir (W. Scott Poole)
Section Three: The Zombie Novel-Coming of
Carrie Ryan's Romance of the Forest: Mudos, Young Adult
Novels and the Gothic (Cory James Rushton)
Toward a Genealogy of the American Zombie Novel:
From Jack London to Colson Whitehead (Wylie Lenz)
"Systems Die Hard": Resistance and Reanimation in Colson Whitehead's Zone One (Kelli Shermeyer)
Section Four: Revisionist Novels-Entering Maturity
"Condemned to history by the Hate": David J. Moody's
Hater and Postmillennial Rage (Dawn Keetley)
The Psychosomatic Zombie Man: The Postmodern Subject
in Warm Bodies (Steven Holmes)
Feeding the Frenzy: Mira Grant's Feed (Arnold T. Blumberg)
Teaching Zombies, Developing Students: Pedagogical
Success in The Girl with All the Gifts (Kyle William Bishop)
Desiring Machines: Zombies, Automata and Cormac
McCarthy's The Road (Jesse Stommel)
Afterword: The Zombie Is Dead: Long Live the Zombie (Robert G. Weiner)
Filmography
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Kyle William Bishop is a professor of English and film studies and serves as the English department chair at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two monographs with McFarland.
Angela Tenga is an assistant professor at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida. She has offered numerous presentations about the undead, and her work on zombies and other monsters has appeared in
Gothic Studies, Supernatural Studies, and
The Journal of Popular Culture.
