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03543aam a22004694i 4500 001 B076F12C6BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151006010103 008 150122s2015 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014040924 020 $a 0813568838 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780813568836 (pbk.) 020 $a 0813568846 (hardback) 020 $a 9780813568843 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)893709481 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d COO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GR581 $b .L38 2015 082 00 $a 398.21 $2 23 084 $a HIS041000 $a LIT000000 $a SOC022000 $a HIS041000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Lauro, Sarah Juliet. 245 14 $a The transatlantic zombie : $b slavery, rebellion, and living death / $c Sarah J. Lauro. 264 1 $a New Brunswick, New Jersey : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xiii, 263 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a American literatures initiative 520 $a "Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth's migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of storytelling, reminding us of the power of myths and mythmaking, and the high stakes of appropriation and homage. Beginning with an account of a probable ancestor of the zombie found in the Kongolese and Angolan regions of seventeenth-century Africa and ending with a description of the way, in contemporary culture, new media are used to facilitate zombie-themed events, Sarah Juliet Lauro plots the zombie's cultural significance through Caribbean literature, Haitian folklore, and American literature, film, and the visual arts. The zombie entered US consciousness through the American occupation of Haiti, the site of an eighteenth-century slave rebellion that became a war for independence, thus making the figuration of living death inseparable from its resonances with both slavery and rebellion. Lauro bridges African mythology and US mainstream culture by articulating the ethical complications of the zombie's invocation as a cultural conquest that was rebranded for the American cinema. As The Transatlantic Zombie shows, the zombie is not merely a bogeyman representing the ills of modern society, but a battleground over which a cultural war has been fought between the imperial urge to absorb exotic, threatening elements, and the originary, Afro-disaporic culture's preservation through a strategy of mythic combat"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index. 650 0 $a Zombies $x History. 650 0 $a Zombies $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Zombies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01184595 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211025851.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20151209013607.0 952 $l UUAX975 $d 20151205010207.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B076F12C6BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search