{"product_id":"ecology-of-the-zombie-kerstin-oloff-9781836245469","title":"Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEcology of the Zombie\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eEcology of the Zombie\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMyal \u003c\/i\u003ein conjunction with George Romero's \u003cem\u003eDawn of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, and examining \u003cem\u003eThe Stepford Wives\u003c\/em\u003e alongside the fiction of Pedro Cabiya. In so doing, it provides an important new interpretation of the cultural history of the zombie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kerstin Oloff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836245467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836245469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Kerstin Oloff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519500824831,"sku":"9781836245469","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d2ab704a-d84d-4893-b0b5-419b29009a92.jpg?v=1778737630","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ecology-of-the-zombie-kerstin-oloff-9781836245469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}