Not Your Average Zombie : : Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks / / Chera Kee.

The zombie apocalypse hasn’t happened—yet—but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee off...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. From the Zombi to the Zombie
  • Part I. Zombie Identities
  • Chapter 1. From Cannibals to Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields
  • Chapter 2. Racialized and Raceless
  • Chapter 3. “You Can’t Hurt Me, You Can’t Destroy Me, You Can’t Control Me”
  • Chapter 4. A Proud and Powerful Line
  • Part II. Playing the Zombie
  • Chapter 5. “Be Safe, Have Fun, Eat Brains”
  • Chapter 6. I Walked with a Zombie
  • Conclusion. “I Think I’m Dead.”
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index