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Author(s):	Stephen Shapiro

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1350271128
Pages:	232	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial, and neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film, and television from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Japan, and Iraq, this book explores how the undead reflect a plethora of experiences previously obscured by western preoccupations and anxieties. These include embodiment and dismemberment in Haitian revolutionary contexts  resistance and subversion to social realities in the Caribbean and Latin America  symbiosis of cultural, historical traditions with Western popular culture  the undead as feminist figures  as an allegory for migrant workers  as a critique to reconfigure socio-ecological relations between humans and nature  and as a means of voicing the plurality of stories from destroyed cities and war-zones.

Interspersed with contextual explorations of the zombie narrative in American culture (such as zombie walks and the television series
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