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Seit der Aufklärung werden Versuche, das Leben auf den Begriff zu bringen, von Figuren des Untoten heimgesucht, die die Grenze zwischen »lebendig« und »tot« infrage stellen. Die hier versammelten Beiträge widmen sich literarischen, medialen, philosophischen und politischen Formationen, in denen das Untote Gestalt annimmt. Kennzeichnend für die Moderne ist eine Emphase des Lebens und ein verändertes Verhältnis zum Tod. Bedrohlich erscheint weniger die Endlichkeit des Lebens, als vielmehr sein Exzess über den Tod hinaus: die paradoxe Unfähigkeit der Toten zu sterben, ihr verstörendes Auftauchen in der Welt der Lebenden. Als unheimliche Zwischenwesen verweisen die Untoten auf eine Dimension des Daseins, die in die soziale und kulturelle Realität nicht integrierbar ist, sie aber mit Insistenz heimsucht und untergräbt. Der vorliegende Band lotet den Topos des Untoten in seiner privativen ebenso wie in seiner konstitutiven Dimension aus, um seine Herausforderung für das gegenwärtige Denken zu erkunden.

Vampires --- Vampires in literature --- Zombies --- Zombies in literature

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From The Walking Dead to World War Z, a serious study of the zombie in literature. 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 oft en better form.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Zombies --- Zombies in literature

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Since the early 2000's, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant idea of the sexual zombie is itself provocative, triggering questions about the nature of desire, sex, sexuality, and the politics of our sexual behaviors. However, the notion of zombie sex has been largely unaddressed in scholarship. This collection addresses that unexamined aspect of zombiedom...

Zombies --- Sex in literature. --- Zombies in literature. --- Queer theory. --- Zombie films. --- Social aspects.

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Ecology of the Zombie marks a significant intervention into the fields of world literature, film studies, ecocriticism, and Gothic Studies. Arguing that the zombie is a fundamentally ecological figure, the book offers original readings of a range of cultural texts from across the Caribbean and the U.S. In its various incarnations - from enslaved body toiling on fields, to vacant-eyed, light-skinned female imprisoned within patriarchal structures, to the cannibalistic mass zombie roaming apocalyptic scenarios - the zombie speaks powerfully to capitalism's systematic degradation of land and labour. Indeed, the figure gives expression to the metabolic rifts through which the modern world-system has unfolded. Boldly intervening in current debates around Gothic imaginaries, Ecology of the Zombie argues for the centrality of the Caribbean monstrous to understanding Gothic ecologies due to the region's pivotal role in the emergence of capitalist modernity. The book is distinguished by its striking comparative analyses, bringing the work of René Depestre, for example, into conversation with that of Ralph Ellison, reading Erna Brodber's Myal in conjunction with George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, and examining The Stepford Wives alongside the fiction of Pedro Cabiya. In so doing, it provides an important new interpretation of the cultural history of the zombie.

American literature --- Caribbean literature --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American --- Zombies in literature --- Zombies in motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism

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Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero, television shows like AMC's The Walking Dead, to literary offerings such as Richard Matheson's I am Legend (1954) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride, Prejudice and Zombies (2009), among others.

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