The Transatlantic Zombie : : Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death / / Sarah J. Lauro.
Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth's migration...
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Lauro, Sarah J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Transatlantic Zombie : Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death / Sarah J. Lauro. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (284 p.) : 12 photographs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Orthography -- Introduction: Zombie Dialectics- "Ki sa sa ye?" (What is that?) -- 1. Slavery and Slave Rebellion: The (Pre)History of the Zombi/e -- 2. "American" Zombies: Love and Theft on the Silver Screen -- 3. Haitian Zombis: Symbolic Revolutions, Metaphoric Conquests, and the Mythic Occupation of History -- 4. Textual Zombies in the Visual Arts -- Epilogue: The Occupation of Metaphor -- Notes -- Filmography -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth's migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of storytelling, reminding us of the power of myths and mythmaking, and the high stakes of appropriation and homage. Beginning with an account of a probable ancestor of the zombie found in the Kongolese and Angolan regions of seventeenth-century Africa and ending with a description of the way, in contemporary culture, new media are used to facilitate zombie-themed events, Sarah Juliet Lauro plots the zombie's cultural significance through Caribbean literature, Haitian folklore, and American literature, film, and the visual arts. The zombie entered US consciousness through the American occupation of Haiti, the site of an eighteenth-century slave rebellion that became a war for independence, thus making the figuration of living death inseparable from its resonances with both slavery and rebellion. Lauro bridges African mythology and US mainstream culture by articulating the ethical complications of the zombie as a cultural conquest that was rebranded for the American cinema. As The Transatlantic Zombie shows, the zombie is not merely a bogeyman representing the ills of modern society, but a battleground over which a cultural war has been fought between the imperial urge to absorb exotic, threatening elements, and the originary, Afro-diasporic culture's preservation through a strategy of mythic combat. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Folklore Haiti African influences. Zombies in art. Zombies in literature History and criticism. Zombies in motion pictures. Zombies in popular culture United States. Zombies History Social aspects. Zombies History. Zombies United States History. PERFORMING ARTS / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110666151 print 9780813568843 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813568850 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813568850 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813568850.jpg |
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