Description: Transatlantic Zombie : Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death, Paperback by Lauro, Sarah Juliet, ISBN 0813568838, ISBN-13 9780813568836, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever beentold, explaining how the myth's migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of storytelling, reminding us of the power of myths and mythmaking, and the high stakes of appropriation and homage. Beginning with an account of a probable ancestor of the zombie found in the Kongolese and Angolan regions of seventeenth-century Africa and ending with a description of the way, in contemporary culture, new media are used to facilitate zombie-themedevents, Sarah Juliet Lauro plots the zombie's cultural significance through Caribbean literature, Haitian folklore, and American literature, film, and the visual arts. The zombie entered US consciousness through the American occupation of Haiti, the siteof an eighteenth-century slave rebellion that became a war for independence, thus making the figuration of living death inseparable from its resonances with both slavery and rebellion. Lauro bridges African mythology and US mainstream culture by articulating the ethical complications of the zombie's invocation as a cultural conquest that was rebranded for the American cinema. As The Transatlantic Zombie shows, the zombie is not merely a bogeyman representing the ills of modern society, but a battlegroundover which a cultural war has been fought between the imperial urge to absorb exotic, threatening elements, and the originary, Afro-disaporic culture's preservation through a strategy of mythic combat"--
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Book Title: Transatlantic Zombie : Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Transatlantic Zombie : Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Folklore & Mythology, General, Film / History & Criticism, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 15.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Sarah J. Lauro
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science, History
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
