Zombie Theory: A Reader

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Assembling the best international, interdisciplinary zombie scholarship, this collection considers what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other. Essays portray zombies not as a singular cultural figure but as representative of larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagion and technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusion and oppression, dehumanization.

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Sarah Juliet Lauro is assistant professor of English at the University of Tampa. She is author of The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Resistance, and Living-Death and coeditor of Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human.