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Books of the Dead : Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature

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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 Lanzend rfer fills this gap by looking at a number of zombie novels, short stories, and comics, and probing what the zombie represents in contemporary literature. Lanzend rfer 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 D az'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, Lanzend rfer makes the case for reading these texts with care and openness in their own right.

Lanzend rfer 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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781496819062
  • ISBN-10: 1496819063
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publish Date: September 2018
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.11 pounds
  • Page Count: 226

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