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Postracial Fantasies and Zombies : On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World by Eric King Watts (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520403789
ISBN-139780520403789
eBay Product ID (ePID)3065345309
Product Key Features
Book TitlePostracial Fantasies and Zombies : on the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World
Number of Pages230 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicMedia Studies, Black Studies (Global)
GenreSocial Science
AuthorEric King Watts
Book SeriesEnvironmental Communication, Power, and Culture Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2023-056541
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240205
Series Volume Number5
Dewey Decimal791.43/675
Table Of ContentContents 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
SynopsisThis book understands the postracial as a genre-like the zombie apocalypse-that signals a disturbance in society that is both terrifying and exciting. The postracial 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. Treating the "Greater Caribbean" as a transformative space in which an an-tiblack infrastructure arose, he interrogates the US's militarized domination of Haiti, 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.Z63W38 2024
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