Postracial Fantasies and Zombies
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Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

About this book

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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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780520403772
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520403796
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Global Politics
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Series Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Subvention
  5. Dedication
  6. Publisher’s Note
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. “Name Something You Know about Zombies”
  11. 2. Haiti’s Postcolonial “Shadows”: The Magic Island and White Zombie
  12. 3. “It Was an Accident. The Whole Movie Was an Accident”: The Perverse Postracial in Night of the Living Dead
  13. 4. “Zombies Are Real”
  14. Conclusion: Blackened Death and Zombie Relations
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index

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