Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media

ISBN-13: 9781350271128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Stephen Shapiro; Giulia Champion; Roxanne Douglas

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Acknowledgements List of Contributors Roxanne Douglas and Giulia Champion - “Introduction: Decolonizing the Zombie” Part 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 (Kennesaw State University, USA) 3. Decolonizing the Zombie: I Walked with a Zombie’s Critique of Centrist Liberalism, Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK) Part II Zombie World-System 4. Samurai Zombies: Japan’s Undead Past, Frank Jacob (Nord Universitet, Norway) 5. Crude Monsters in the ‘Extractive Zone:’ The Creaturely and Ecological Zombie, Josephine Taylor (Royal Holloway, University of London, 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: Labor, 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:’ Netflix, Santa Clarita Diet and the Neoliberal Feminist Encounter with Pleasure Politics, Roxanne Douglas (University of Warwick, UK) Part III Zombie Decolonial 9. De/Zombification as Decolonial Critique: Beyond Man, Nature and the Posthuman in Folklore and Fiction from South Africa, Rebecca Duncan (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 10. Zombies, Placelessness and Transcultural Entanglement: Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, Netty Mattar (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. From the Mountain to the Shore: Indigenous Migration, Water Crisis and Revolutionary Zombies from Haiti to Perú, Giulia Champion (University of Essex and University of Warwick, UK) Decolonizing Zombie Cultural Practice: An Afterword, Stephen Shapiro Index