Contributions to Zombie Studies Race, Oppression and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition, (Paperback)

from Violeten

This book was kind of hard to read through. It has an interesting take on the lore of zombies and the skeleton of great information. However as I said before it was hard to read through, I understand it was a collection of essays but the writer didn't even throw anything in to keep me going. Woul...

from artistlibrarian

Editors Christopher M Moreman and Cory James Rushton have compiled an excellent source of zombie research. Their introduction is a must-read for understanding the historical placement of the zombie in Caribbean and Western traditions. They make the careful distinction between Voodoo, the skewed a...

from TheBentley

Let me start by saying this book is not for laymen. Despite the B-movie cover, this is serious scholarly work, and most of it quite good--even if some of it is not particularly well-written (which matters when the author is trying to explicate complicated academic concepts). That said, I really l...

from blakefraina

I was writing something that included an undead character. Not a vampire or zombie in the sense that we think of them today, but more along the lines of the Haitian Voodoo/Vodou zombies. As research I read Zora Neal Hurston's Tell My Horse and attempted to read this book, Race, Oppression and the...

from seidchen

From the origins of zombies in the belief system of Haitian Vodou to the movie 'Night of the Living Dead' considered in the era of Sidney Poitier, to the legacy of orientalism, zombie consumerism, and current-day racial/national conflicts, this wide-ranging collection engages on a great many leve...