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OverviewThis book understands the postracial as a genre—like the zombie apocalypse—that 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 US's 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric King WattsPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 5 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780520403789ISBN 10: 0520403789 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 06 August 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationEric King Watts is Associate Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University and has published widely on racism and Blackness, including his previous book, Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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