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Ecology of the zombie : world-culture and the monstrous / Kerstin Oloff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oloff, Kerstin, author.
- Series:
- Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 28.
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 28
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zombies in literature.
- Zombies in motion pictures.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
- Caribbean literature--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.;)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- '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 US.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Greening Zombie Theory
- 2 The Sugar-Zombie, Race and Cash-Crop Monocultures
- 3 The Zombie-in-the-House, Nature and the Colonies
- 4 Energy and the Emergence of the Petro-Zombie
- 5 Zombies-of-Waste and Neoliberal Exhaustion
- Conclusion: Plotting the Routes of De-zombification
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 11, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 1-80207-320-5
- 1-83764-461-6
- OCLC:
- 1404018502
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