Postracial Fantasies and Zombies : On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture
ISBN-10
0520403770
ISBN-13
9780520403772
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 6th, 2024
Print length
230 Pages
Weight
499 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms
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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.
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