Postracial Fantasies and Zombies (eBook)

On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

Eric King Watts (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
230 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520403796 (ISBN)

Infos

This book understands the postracial as a genrelike the zombie apocalypsethat signals a disturbance in society that is felt as terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitization, and fantasies of the reclamation of white masculine sovereignty. Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, preparing the scientific and philosophical ground for interpreting zombie lore. The book treats the Greater Caribbean as a transformative space in which an antiblack infrastructure arose and interrogates the USs militarized domination of Haiti that was the context in which the zombie emerged. Watts traces variations of the form and function of the zombie to contemplate how it matters to our contemporary struggles with racism and pandemic policies.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1 “Name Something You Know about Zombies” 
2 Haiti’s Postcolonial “Shadows”: The Magic Island and White Zombie 
3 “It Was an Accident. The Whole Movie Was an Accident”: The Perverse Postracial in Night 
of the Living Dead 
4 “Zombies Are Real” 
Conclusion: Blackened Death and Zombie Relations 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Caribbean plantation systems • Colonization • film analysis • Masculinity • Night of the Living Dead • postracial discourse • preppers • survivalists • transatlantic print culture • undead literature • Walking Dead • white supremacy • zombie apocalypse in US culture
• ISBN-13: 9780520403796 / 9780520403796