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Decolonizing the undead : rethinking zombies in world-literature, film, and media

Title
Decolonizing the undead : rethinking zombies in world-literature, film, and media / [edited by] Stephen Shapiro, Giulia Chamption and Roxanne Douglas.
Publication
  • London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
  • [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

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Additional Authors
  • Douglas, Roxanne
  • Chamption, Giulia
  • Shapiro, Stephen
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Description
1 online resource.
Subject
  • Zombies
  • Zombies in literature
  • Zombies in motion pictures
  • Zombies in mass media
  • Zombies in popular culture
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Contents
Introduction / Giulia Champion and Roxanne Douglas (University of Warwick, UK) -- Section I: Thinking Zombies. 1. ''Il y a des zombies dans ceci...': Dessalines, Disembodiment, and Early Haitian Literature? / Elizabeth Kelly (Florida Polytechnic University, USA) ; 2. "White and Black Zombies: How Race Rewrites the Zombie Narrative" / Cécile Accilien (University of Kansas, USA) ; 3. "Decolonizing the Zombie: I Walked with a Zombie's Critique of Centrist Liberalism / Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK) Section II: Zombie World-System ; 4. 'Samurai Zombies: Japan's Undead Past' / Frank Jacob (Nord Universitet, Norway) ; 5. 'Crude Monsters and Fossilised Sentience: The Creaturely and Ecological Zombie' / Josephine Taylor (Royal Holloway, UK) ; 6. 'Undead, Undeader, Undeadest: Narrating the Unevenness of Ecological Crisis in Nana Nkweti's 'It Just Kills You Inside'' / Fiona Farnsworth (University of Warwick, UK) ; 7. 'Zombie Proletkino: Labour, Race and Genre in Pedro Costa's Casa de Lava' / Thomas Waller (University of Nottingham, UK) ; 8. ''It Feels Like I'm Giving My Body Something It Needs in an Intense and Powerful Way': Santa Clarita Diet and the Feminist Encounter with Binge/Menopause/Pleasure Politics' / Roxanne Douglas (University of Warwick, UK) -- Section III: The Zombie Decolonial. 9. 'Beyond Nature and the (Post)Human: Aesthetics of De/Zombification in African Speculative Fiction' / Rebecca Duncan (Linnaeus University, Sweden) ; 10. 'Undead Space and the Wounds of Iraq: The Zombie in Ahmad Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad' / Netty Mattar (The International Islamic University of Malaysia) ; 11. ''First They Bring the HIV, Then the Zombie': Portrayal of the West in contemporary Indian zombie literature and cinema' / Abhirup Mascharak (Jadavpur University, India) ; 12. 'Indigenous Fragmented Corporeality and Migration in the Manchay Tiempo in Julio Ortega's Adio's, Ayacucho (1986)' / Giulia Champion (University of Warwick, UK) -- Afterword: Decolonizing Zombie Cultural Practice / Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9781350271159
  • 1350271152
  • 9781350271142
  • 1350271144
LCCN
10.5040/9781350271159
OCLC
om2015502041
Title
Decolonizing the undead : rethinking zombies in world-literature, film, and media / [edited by] Stephen Shapiro, Giulia Chamption and Roxanne Douglas.
Publisher
London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Distributor
[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
electronic
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Added Author
Douglas, Roxanne, editor.
Chamption, Giulia, editor.
Shapiro, Stephen, editor.
EBSCOhost
Other Form:
Print version: 9781350271166
Other Standard Identifier
10.5040/9781350271159 doi
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