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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKee, Chera
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245 1 0 _aNot Your Average Zombie :
_bRehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks /
_cChera Kee.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction. From the Zombi to the Zombie --
_tPart I. Zombie Identities --
_tChapter 1. From Cannibals to Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields --
_tChapter 2. Racialized and Raceless --
_tChapter 3. “You Can’t Hurt Me, You Can’t Destroy Me, You Can’t Control Me” --
_tChapter 4. A Proud and Powerful Line --
_tPart II. Playing the Zombie --
_tChapter 5. “Be Safe, Have Fun, Eat Brains” --
_tChapter 6. I Walked with a Zombie --
_tConclusion. “I Think I’m Dead.” --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe zombie apocalypse hasn’t happened—yet—but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee offers an innovative answer by looking at zombies that don’t conform to the stereotypes of mindless slaves or flesh-eating cannibals. Zombies who think, who speak, and who feel love can be sympathetic and even politically powerful, she asserts. Kee analyzes zombies in popular culture from 1930s depictions of zombies in voodoo rituals to contemporary film and television, comic books, video games, and fan practices such as zombie walks. She discusses how the zombie has embodied our fears of losing the self through slavery and cannibalism and shows how “extra-ordinary” zombies defy that loss of free will by refusing to be dehumanized. By challenging their masters, falling in love, and leading rebellions, “extra-ordinary” zombies become figures of liberation and resistance. Kee also thoroughly investigates how representations of racial and gendered identities in zombie texts offer opportunities for living people to gain agency over their lives. Not Your Average Zombie thus deepens and broadens our understanding of how media producers and consumers take up and use these undead figures to make political interventions in the world of the living.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aHuman beings.
650 0 _aHumanity.
650 0 _aZombies in literature.
650 0 _aZombies in motion pictures.
650 0 _aZombies in popular culture.
650 0 _aZombies
_xHistory
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aZombies
_xPsychological aspects.
650 7 _aPERFORMING ARTS / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/313176
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477313183
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