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  title info:
    title: Books of the dead
    sub title: reading the zombie in contemporary literature
  name:
    name part: Lanzendörfer, Tim
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The zombie has cropped up in many forms, in film, in television and as a cultural phenomenon in zombie walks and zombie awareness months, but few books have looked at what the zombie means in fiction. Tim Lanzendörfer fills this gap by looking at a number of zombie novels, short stories and comics, and probing what the zombie represents in contemporary literature. Lanzendörfer brings together the most recent critical discussion of zombies and applies it to a selection of key texts including Max Brooks's World War Z, Colson Whitehead's Zone One, Junot Díaz's short story "Monstro," Robert Kirkman's comic series The Walking Dead and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Within the context of broader literary culture, Lanzendörfer makes the case for reading these texts with care and openness in their own right. Lanzendörfer contends that what zombies do is less important than what becomes possible when they are around. Indeed, they seem less interesting as metaphors for the various ways the world could end than they do as vehicles for how the world might exist in a different and often better form.
  table of contents: Max Brooks's World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war: conservative Armageddon and liberal postapocalypse -- Pariah and dying to live: imagining community after the apocalypse -- The Walking Dead and the never-ending zombie story: the everyday, community, and the need for an ending -- "So many unmentionables about": parody, pride and prejudice and zombies, and the politics of mash-up fiction -- Sadie and Allison in the apocalypse: zombies and gender -- The postracial, postcapitalist zombie: Colson Whitehead's Zone One and Junot Díaz's "Monstro."
  note: Tim Lanzendörfer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Zombies in literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Apocalyptic literature
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS374.Z66 L36 2018
  identifier: 9781496819062
  identifier: 1496819063
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180605
    record change date: 20190122120121.0
    record identifier: in00003998080