Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media

Cover\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Decolonizing the Zombie Roxanne Douglas and Giulia Champion\nPart One Thinking Zombies\n	1 “Il y a des zombies dans ceci . . .”: Dessalines, Disembodiment, and Early Haitian Literature Elizabeth Kelly\n	2 White and Black Zombies: How Race Rewrites the Zombie Narrative Cécile Accilien\n	3 Decolonizing the Zombie: I Walked with a Zombie’s Critique of Centrist Liberalism Stephen Shapiro\nPart Two Zombie World-System\n	4 Samurai Zombies: Japan’s Undead Past Frank Jacob\n	5 Crude Monsters in the “Extractive Zone”: The Creaturely and Ecological Zombie Josephine Taylor\n	6 Undead, Undeader, Undeadest: Narrating the Unevenness of Ecological Crisis in Nana Nkweti’s “It Just Kills You Inside” Fiona Farnsworth\n	7 Zombie Proletkino: Labor, Race, and Genre in Pedro Costa’s Casa de Lava Thomas Waller\n	8 “It Feels Like I’m Giving My Body Something It Needs in an Intense and Powerful Way”: Netflix, Santa Clarita Diet, and the Neoliberal Feminist Encounter with Pleasure Politics Roxanne Douglas\nPart Three Zombie Decolonial\n	9 De/Zombification as Decolonial Critique: Beyond Man, Nature, and the Posthuman in Folklore and Fiction from South Africa Rebecca Duncan\n	10 Zombies, Placelessness, and Transcultural Entanglement: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad Netty Mattar\n	11 “First They Bring the HIV, then the Zombie”: Portrayal of the West in Contemporary Indian Zombie Literature and Cinema Abhirup Mascharak\n	12 From the Mountain to the Shore: Migration, Water Crisis, and Revolutionary Zombies from Haiti to Peru Giulia Champion\nDecolonizing Zombie Cultural Practice: An Afterword Stephen Shapiro\nNotes on Contributors\nIndex