Books of the Dead: Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496821140)

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fer 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fer 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僘z'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fer makes the case for reading these texts with care and openness in their own right.

Lanzendfer 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.

Author: Tim Lanzendfer
ISBN-10: 1496821149
ISBN-13: 9781496821140
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2018
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d