Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romeros The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic b
Assembling the bestinternational, interdisciplinary zombie scholarship, this collection considerswhat the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to eachother. Essays portray zombies not as a singular cultural figure but asrepresentative of larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagionand technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusionand oppression, dehumanization.
Sarah Juliet Lauro is assistant professor of English at the University of Tampa. She is author of The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Resistance, and Living-Death and coeditor of Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human.
Assembling the bestinternational, interdisciplinary zombie scholarship, this collection considerswhat the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to eachother. Essays portray zombies not as a singular cultural figure but asrepresentative of larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagionand technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusionand oppression, dehumanization.
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