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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: transatlantic zombie
    sub title: slavery, rebellion, and living death
  name:
    name part: Lauro, Sarah Juliet.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 263 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 been told, 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-themed events, 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 site of 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 American 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 battleground over 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.
  note: Sarah J. Lauro.
  note: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Zombies
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Zombies
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General
  classification: GR581 .L38 2015
  classification: 398.21
  related item:
    title info:
      title: American literatures initiative
  identifier: 9780813568843 (hardback)
  identifier: 0813568846 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780813568836 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0813568838 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780813568850 (e-book (web pdf))
  identifier: 2014040924
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150122
    record change date: 20170928132848.0
    record identifier: in00003582011