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Books of the dead : reading the zombie in contemporary literature /

"The zombie has cropped up in many forms--in film, in television, and as a cultural phenomenon in zombie walks and zombie awareness months--but few books have looked at what the zombie means in fiction. Tim Lanzendörfer fills this gap by looking at a number of zombie novels, short stories, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lanzendörfer, Tim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Max Brooks's World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war: conservative Armageddon and liberal postapocalypse
  • Pariah and dying to live: imagining community after the apocalypse
  • The Walking Dead and the never-ending zombie story: the everyday, community, and the need for an ending
  • "So many unmentionables about": parody, pride and prejudice and zombies, and the politics of mash-up fiction
  • Sadie and Allison in the apocalypse: zombies and gender
  • The postracial, postcapitalist zombie: Colson Whitehead's Zone One and Junot Díaz's "Monstro."