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Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

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This 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...
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This 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.
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 230
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture
Publication Date: 06 August 2024
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520403789
Format: Paperback
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Eric 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.
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