Name: Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous
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Author: Oloff, Kerstin
ISBN: 9781837644223

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Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous

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Physical Book

Author

Kerstin Oloff

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm

ISBN13

9781837644223

Synopsis "Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous"

Ecology of the Zombie marks a significant intervention into the fields of world literature, film studies, ecocriticism, and Gothic Studies. Arguing that the zombie is a fundamentally ecological figure, the book offers original readings of a range of cultural texts from across the Caribbean and the U.S. In its various incarnations - from enslaved body toiling on fields, to vacant-eyed, light-skinned female imprisoned within patriarchal structures, to the cannibalistic mass zombie roaming apocalyptic scenarios - the zombie speaks powerfully to capitalism's systematic degradation of land and labour. Indeed, the figure gives expression to the metabolic rifts through which the modern world-system has unfolded. Boldly intervening in current debates around Gothic imaginaries, Ecology of the Zombie argues for the centrality of the Caribbean monstrous to understanding Gothic ecologies due to the region's pivotal role in the emergence of capitalist modernity. The book is distinguished by its striking comparative analyses, bringing the work of René Depestre, for example, into conversation with that of Ralph Ellison, reading Erna Brodber's Myal in conjunction with George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, and examining The Stepford Wives alongside the fiction of Pedro Cabiya. In so doing, it provides an important new interpretation of the cultural history of the zombie.

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