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Ecology of the zombie : world-culture and the monstrous / Kerstin Oloff.

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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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