Description: An exploration of the zombie figure across film and literature from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Japan, Iraq and Ireland and its significance to postcolonial and decolonial discourses.
Brief description: Giulia Champion is a Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Studies Centre at the University of Essex and a Research Assistant in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the co-editor of Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction (2020) and "Intersections of Activism and Academia" with the Bulletin of Latin American Research (2022).
Review Quotes:
"The zombie is the most overtly colonial monster in the Gothic pantheon, and yet the one most urgently in need of being reinserted into proper colonial and neo-colonial contexts. This collection expertly deploys the latest in decolonial theory to offer urgent political readings always sensitive to ever-shifting local and global situations. Important and timely." --Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck University of London, UK
"This volume of essays is a valuable addition to scholarship on the figure of the zombie in popular and literary texts, as well as a helpful working out of the growing academic inclination toward 'decolonial' analytical practice over 'postcolonial' criticism." --New West Indian Guide