The Transatlantic Zombie : Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death /

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"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 mig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lauro, Sarah Juliet
Autor Corporativo: American Literatures Initiative
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Zombies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Zombies > États-Unis > Histoire.
Zombies > Histoire.
Zombies > United States > History.
Zombies > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Zombie Dialectics---"Ki sa sa ye?"(What is that?)
  • Slavery and Slave Rebellion: The (Pre)History of the Zombi/e
  • "American" Zombies: Love and Theft on the Silver Screen
  • Haitian Zombis: Symbolic Revolutions, Metaphoric Conquests, and the Mythic Occupation of History
  • Textual Zombies in the Visual Arts
  • Epilogue: The Occupation of Metaphor.

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