Research Catalog

Title

Undead uprising : Haiti, horror and the zombie complex / John Cussans.

Author

Cussans, John

Publication

London, UK : Strange Attractor Press, 2017.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xiv, 392 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

There are zombies among us! From the rotting hordes of TV's 'The Walking Dead' to the blockbuster nightmare of '28 days later', our popular culture is overrun with the ravenous undead. But where do these strange creatures come from? In this book, artist and writer John Cussans tracks the zombie from Hollywood back to its origins in the voodoo folklore of Haiti.

Alternative Title

Haiti, horror and the zombie complex

Subject

• Zombies > History
• Zombies in literature
• Zombies in motion pictures
• Zombies in popular culture
• Folklore > Haiti
• Haiti > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-377), filmography (pages 378-379) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface. The zombie complex -- These people, those things -- Introduction. Demons through the ether -- Intimations of a phantom Haiti -- Klinik Zonbi -- fig i. Axis of living dead -- part one. Leaving the magic island. "The way is opened and closed" -- Dark womb of terrible ecstasies -- Seabrook and the occupation -- The goat without horns -- Dead men working -- The Bastille-Seabrook connection -- Postscript -- Sleepwalking with zombies. Masters natural and supernatural -- Revolutionary somnambulists -- Mas mind-savage crowd -- The black blood of soulles robots -- A mind of one's own? -- The romance of revolutionary vodou. The ethnographic reclamation of vodou -- War on vodou -- Founding of the Bureau of Ethnology -- The mythopoesis of Bois Caïman -- Summoning the Lwa of Insurrection -- Sacrifice, fetishism and the Black God of Liberty -- Live and let die: black propaganda and voodoo politics. Rise of the Baron -- Bond's black ops -- Papa Doc's vodou nation -- The end point of comedy -- Secretism, juju journalism or Zin? -- Postscript -- fig ii. Axis of living death -- part two. No more room in hell. Undead uprising -- Media zombies and the television revolution -- Black souls on Cold War ice -- Bifuracation of the zombie complex -- Return of the Haitian zombie. Agents of the curse -- The serpent and the rainbow -- Secret governance -- Altered states -- Black terror/white hope -- The world must know about this -- Gosts of Cité Soleil. Living phantoms -- Conversion of the cannibal army -- Creation of an occult criminal machine -- Dangerous liaisons -- Every door is closed -- Chimerical optics -- Nightmares in a damaged brain. Metaphysical maladies -- A voodoo possession? -- Feeding demons hungry for blood -- Intimations of a phantom Haiti (revisited) -- Bibliography -- Television documentaries -- Articles -- Interviews and presentations -- Filmography.

ISBN

• 9781907222474
• 1907222472

OCLC

• 962010290
• SCSB-12137602

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library