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Contributions to Zombie Studies: Race, Oppression and the Zombie : Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition by Cory James Rushton (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-100786459115
ISBN-139780786459117
eBay Product ID (ePID)109072818
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRace, Oppression and the Zombie : Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition
SubjectFilm / Genres / Horror, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Folklore & Mythology, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
AuthorCory James Rushton
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science, History
SeriesContributions to Zombie Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight15.1 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-021467
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal398.209729
Table Of ContentTable of Contents Introduction: Race, Colonialism, and the Evolution of the "Zombie" CORY JAMES RUSHTON and CHRISTOPHER M. MOREMAN I--Haitian Origins: Race and the Zombie 1. New South, New Immigrants, New Women, New Zombies: The Historical Development of the Zombie in American Popular Culture ANN KORDAS 2. Hurston in Haiti: Neocolonialism and Zombification RITA KERESZTESI 3. Putting the Undead to Work: Wade Davis, Haitian Vodou, and the Social Uses of the Zombie DAVID 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 Dead BARBARA S. BRUCE II--The Capital of the Dead 5. Time for Zombies: Sacrifice and the Structural Phenomenology of Capitalist Futures RONJON PAUL DATTA and LAURA MACDONALD 6. Zombified Capital in the Postcolonial Capital: Circulation (of Blood) in Sony Labou Tansi's Parentheses of Blood ELIZABETH A. STINSON III--Culturally Transplanted Zombies 7. Zombie Orientals Ate My Brain! Orientalism in Contemporary Zombie Stories ERIC 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 Film CYNTHIA J. MILLER 10. Eating Ireland: Zombies, Snakes and Missionaries in Boy Eats Girl CORY 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 Understandings 12. Zombie Categories, Religion and the New False Rationalism EDWARD DUTTON 13. Nothing but Meat? Philosophical Zombies and Their Cinematic Counterparts DAVE BEISECKER Bibliography Filmography About the Contributors Index
SynopsisExplores numerous aspects of the zombie phenomenon, from its roots in Haitian folklore, to its evolution in film, to its most radical transformation during the 1960s countercultural revolution. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines examine the zombie and its relationship to colonialism, orientalism, racism, globalism, capitalism and more--including potential signs that the nearly unstoppable zombie hordes may have finally met their match: oversaturation., 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.
LC Classification NumberGR581.R34 2011
