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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 p.) :; 12 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- 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