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... of the justification of social hierarchy that Pierre Bourdieu calls “sublimation.” [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 zombie fiction class status Colson Whitehead Ling Ma In the moments before we shot them, they looked at us with crocodile eyes, knowing our...

... during Vodou ceremonies through spirit possession. Dom Pedro’s tragic fight against white oppression has lived on in Petwo rituals and oral histories of slave rebellion. The Haitian Revolution led to the consecration of two new rebels in the Petwo pantheon: Dessalines and Jean Zombi. Two years after...

... Culture no. 9 Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, “Alien- Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism,” South Atlantic Quarterly no. Deckard Millennial Capitalism and 2666 355 metaphorics gure what Nicholas Brown calls the “rift...

...: “As the function of the city changes, its very nature changes, and those changes alter our ideologies [and] our literary texts” (245).Yet Cohen overreads him by exempting texts from history: “The texts which deal with urban life provide the continuing factor for fiction; . . . [Lehan’s] essay recognizes...

... negotiate the multiple crises piling up under a regime of “zombie neoliberalism” (Peck 2010 : 1), we can learn much from what both the Frankfurt and the Birmingham Schools have taught us about the connection between historical crisis and the formation of collectives. And like the CCCS attempting to find...

...Eric Hayot Abstract The various pronouncements of the nation’s dissolution seem to have been premature. Literary history is still very much within the nation, especially if one considers the realm of the middle- and lowbrow, or indeed the vast swaths of genre fiction. What has changed in literary...

... authored books include Questing Fictions: Latin America’s Family Romance (1987); Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe’s Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology (1992); The Other Writing: Postcolonial Essays in Latin America’s Writing Culture (1993); and Memos from the Besieged City...

... Portlandia , which premiered in 2011, avoids the future-oriented “inevitability effect” of the fin de siècle utopias by returning to an earlier moment in the utopian genre: the satirizing of a society somewhere on Earth. Portlandia presents a lightly fictionalized version of Portland, Oregon, as a happy...

... less common in modernist and experimental fiction. None of these claims survives scrutiny. A rereading of Roland Barthes’s S/Z (1970) should reveal the many shortcuts a narratologist has to take to celebrate open endings as liberating and should also disclose some of the ideological purposes to which...

... for Doyle and Chesterton; Monta 2016 , a fabulous work, helpful for thinking about the repetitions of genre fiction; and Wilson 2016 , misleadingly titled “Confessional Reading,” which explores aestheticism in The Picture of Dorian Gray as a microcosm of secularism, centered on a concept (the aesthetic...

.... OSTOVICH Freud believed that the arts had a great deal to teach psychology but little to learn from it. Corroboration of his view appears frequently enough in scientific “discoveries”that confirm the insights of particu- lar works of fiction. Richardson’s intuitive grasp of how the prison...

..., one is incapable of revolt and remains dependent on existing institutions” ( SE , 14). He draws a bleak picture—with which it is hard to quibble—of a culture of zombies who “may abstractly deplore the millions of lives and species rendered disposable by capitalism or the devastation of ecosystems...

... memoir of the United States during the Reagan-Bush era, is fueled by vengeance—including, potentially, his own: We are born into a preinvented existence within a tribal nation of zombies and in that illusion of a one-tribe nation there are real tribes. . . . But when the volume of that war reaches epic...