The politics of race, gender and sexuality in The Walking Dead : essays on the television series and comics / edited by Elizabeth Erwin and Dawn Keetley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erwin, Elizabeth, editor.

Keetley, Dawn, 1965- editor.

Series:

Contributions to zombie studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walking dead (Television program).

Walking dead (Comic book).

Physical Description:

vi, 194 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction: Identity Politics in The Walking Dead (Dawn Keetley)

Arête of Violence: Hypermasculinity as Power Currency in the Post-Apocalyptic Political Economy (Dustin Dunaway)

The Curious Case of T-Dog: A Magical Negro? (Elexus Jionde)

The Hyperreal Hillbilly: Horror, Melodrama and Backwoods White Protagonists (Kom Kunyosying and Cartet Soles)

"There's no niggers anymore... There's us and the dead": Masculinity in a Post-Racial, Post-Apocalyptic America (Brooke Bennett)

Becoming Glenn: Asian American Masculinity (Helen K. Ho)

"Look at the flowers": Meme Culture and the (Re)Centering of Hegemonic Masculinities Through Women Characters (Tiffany A. Christian)

A Woman's Work is Never Done: Mothering and Marriage (Elizabeth Erwin)

"We ain't ashes": Daryl, Carol and the Burning Away of Traditional Gender Roles (Catherine Pugh)

The Beauty of Beth Greene (Deborah Kennedy)

The Sexualized Heroics of Rick and Michonne (Emily Zarka)

Rules for Surviving Rape Culture (Natalie Wilson)

"We can't just ignore the rules": Queer Heterosexualities (John R. Ziegier)

Afterword: From Identity Politics to Tribalism (Dawn Keetiey)

Episode List

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.

ISBN:

1476668493

9781476668499

OCLC:

1032280113