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

of stories from destroyed cities and war-zones. Interspersed with contextual explorations of the zombie narrative in American culture (such as zombie walks and the television series "The Santa Clarita Diet") contributors examine such writers as Lowell R. Torres, Diego Velázquez Betancourt, Hemendra Kumar Roy, and Manabendra Pal; works like China Mieville's "Covehithe", Reza Negarestani's "Cycolonopedia", Julio Ortega's novel "Adiós, Ayacucho", Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein in Baghdad; "and films by Alejandro Brugués, Michael James Rowland, Steve McQueen, and many others. Far from just another zombie project, this is a vital study that teases out the important conversations among numerous cultures and nations embodied in this universally recognized figure of the undead. [Publisher's Text]

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