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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lanzendörfer, Tim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Subjects:
1900-2099
Zombies in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism.
Zombies dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature apocalyptique > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
American fiction
Apocalyptic literature
Zombies in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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