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Infected Empires
2022
Overview
Given the current moment--polarized populations, increasing climate
fears, and decline of supranational institutions in favor of a
rising tide of nationalisms-- it is easy to understand the
proliferation of apocalyptic and dystopian elements in popular
culture. Infected Empires examines one of the most popular
figures in contemporary apocalyptic film: the zombie. This
harbinger of apocalypse reveals bloody truths about the human
condition, the wounds of history, and methods of contending with
them. Infected Empires considers parallels in the zombie
genre to historical and current events on different political,
theological and philosophical levels, and proposes that the zombie
can be read as a figure of decolonization and an allegory of
resistance to oppressive structures that racialize, marginalize,
disable, and dispose of bodies. Studying films from around the
world, including Latin America, Asia, Africa, the US, and Europe,
Infected Empires presents a vision of a global zombie that
points toward a posthuman and feminist future.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781978826793, 1978826796
