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Assembling the bestinternational, interdisciplinary zombie scholarship, this collection considerswhat the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to eachother. Essays portray zombies not as a singular cultural figure but asrepresentative of larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagionand technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusionand oppression, dehumanization.

Table of Contents:
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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781517900908
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 531
  • Sub Title: A Reader
  • ISBN-10: 1517900905
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 51 mm
  • Width: 178 mm


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