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Titre(s) : Decolonizing the undead [Texte imprimé] : rethinking zombies in world-literature, film, and media / edited by Giulia Champion, Roxanne Douglas, and Stephen Shapiro

Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Description matérielle : vi, 221 pages ; 25 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing it's cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial and Neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film and television from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Japan, Iraq and Ireland, this book explores how the undead reflect a plethora of experiences previously obscured by western preoccupations and anxieties. These include embodiment and dismemberment in Haitian revolutionary contexts; resistance and subversion to social realities in the Caribbean and Latin America; symbiosis of cultural historical traditions with Western popular culture; the undead as feminist figures; as an allegory for migrant workers; as a critique to reconfigure socio-ecological relations between humans and nature; and as a means of voicing the plurality of stories from destroyed cities and war-zones. Interspersed with contextual explorations of the zombie narrative in American culture such as zombie walks and the television series The Santa Clarita Diet, contributors examine such writers as Lowell R. Torres, Diego Velázquez Betancourt, Hemendra Kumar Roy and Manabendra Pal; works like China Mieville's Covehithe, Reza Negarestani's Cycolonopedia, Julio Ortega's novel Adiós, Ayacucho, Ahmad Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad; and films by Alejandro Brugués, Michaell James Rowland, Steve McQueen and many others. Far from just another zombie project, this is a vital study that teases out the important conversations among numerous cultures and nations embodied in the this universally recognized figure of the dead"

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Champion, Giulia. Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Douglas, Roxanne. Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Shapiro, Stephen (1964-....). Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Zombis -- Dans la littérature  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Films de zombis  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Zombis -- Dans les médias  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  809.933 75 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Thème des êtres surnaturels de forme humaine et semi-humaine  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350271128. - ISBN 1350271128. - ISBN 9781350271166. - ISBN 1350271160. - ISBN 9781350271135 (erroné). - ISBN 9781350271142 (erroné). - ISBN 9781350271159 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47149752s

Notice n° :  FRBNF47149752 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Introduction: Decolonizing the zombie / Roxanne Douglas and Giulia Champion ; Part 1. Thinking zombies. "Il y a des zombies dans ceci..." : Dessalines, disembodiment, and early Haitian literature / Elizabeth Kelly ; White and Black zombies : how race rewrites the zombie narrative / Cécile Accilien ; Decolonizing the zombie : I Walked with a Zombie's critique of centrist liberalism / Stephen Shapiro ; Part 2. Zombie world-system. Samurai zombies : Japan's undead past / Frank Jacob ; Crude monsters in the "extractive zone" : the creaturely and ecological zombie / Josephine Taylor ; Undead, undeader, undeadest : narrating the unevenness of ecological crisis in Nana Nkweti's "It Just Kills You Inside" / Fiona Farnsworth ; Zombie proletkino : labor, race, and genre in Pedro Costa's Casa de Lava / Thomas Waller ; "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 ; Part 3. Zombie decolonial. De/zombification as decolonial critique : beyond man, nature, and the posthuman in folklore and fiction in South Africa / Rebecca Duncan ; Zombies, placelessness, and transcultural entanglement : Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad / Netty Mattar ; "First they bring the HIV, then the zombie" : portrayal of the West in contemporary Indian zombie literature and cinema / Abhirup Mascharak ; From the mountain to the shore : migration, water crisis, and revolutionary Zombies from Haiti to Peru / Giulia Champion ; Decolonizing zombie cultural practice : an afterward / Stephen Shapiro.