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Scott Hamilton, Conor Heffernan - Theorising the Contemporary Zombie, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Theorising the Contemporary Zombie

Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Av Scott Hamilton, Conor Heffernan

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Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved laws, issues within higher education, and even the structure of human societies. Despite the surge of interest in the zombie as a critical metaphor, no coherent theoretical framework for studying the zombie actually exists. Addressing this current gap in the literature, Theorising the Contemporary Zombie defines zombiism as a means of theorising and examining various issues of society in any given era by immersing those social issues within the destabilising context of apocalyptic crisis; and applying this definition, the volume considers issues including gender, sexuality, family, literature, health, popular culture and extinction.
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Conor Heffernan is Lecturer of Sport at the University of Ulster. He was previously Assistant Professor of Physical Culture and Sport Studies at the University of Texas. Scott Eric Hamilton is a research associate at the UCD Humanities Institute, and a writing instructor at the UCD Writing Centre. He has published on Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien and Zombiism, and is co-founder of the Zombie Studies Network and the Theorizing Zombiism conference series.

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Theorising the Contemporary Zombie represents a valuable contribution to the growing literature of zombie studies. This innovative collection transcends the often myopic focus of similar scholarly anthologies by demonstrating how valuable the zombie metaphor is for a variety of disciplines and intertexts, not to mention contemporary society as a whole. These essays are a must-read for fans and scholars of the zombie figure alike.

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