Sarah Juliet Lauro is assistant professor of English at the University of Tampa. She is author of The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Resistance, and Living-Death and coeditor of Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human.

Contents

Introduction: Wander and Wonder in Zombieland

Sarah Juliet Lauro

Part I. Old Schools: Classic Zombies

1. Contagious Allegories: George Romero

Steven Shaviro

2. Zombie TV: Late-Night B Movie Horror Fest

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

3. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War

Priscilla Wald

4. Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies

Elizabeth McAlister

5. Slavoj Žižek, the Death Drive, and Zombies: A Theological Account

Ola Sigurdson

Part II. Capitalist Monsters

6. Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope

Jen Webb and Samuel Byrnand

7. Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia

David McNally

8. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism

Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff

9. Zombies of Immaterial Labor: The Modern Monster and the Consumption of the Self

Lars Bang Larsen

10. Abject Posthumanism: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Zombies

Sherryl Vint

Part III. Zombies and Other(ed) People

11. Zombie Race

Edward P. Comentale

12. Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film

Barry Keith Grant

13. Dead and Live Life: Zombies, Queers, and Online Sociality

Shaka McGlotten

14. Dead and Disabled: The Crawling Monsters of The Walking Dead

Anna Mae Duane

15. Trouble with Zombies: Muselmänner, Bare Life, and Displaced People

Jon Stratton

Part IV. Zombies in the Street

Preface: In Memoriam: The Toronto Zombie Walk (2003–2015)

Sarah Juliet Lauro

16. Zombie London: Unexceptionalities of the New World Order

Fred Botting

17. Spooks of Biopower: The Uncanny Carnivalesque of Zombie Walks

Simon Orpana

18. The Scene of Occupation

Tavia Nyong’o

19. The Walking Dead and Killing State: Zombification and the Normalization of Police Violence

Travis Linnemann, Tyler Wall, and Edward Green

Part V. New Life for the Undead

20. Nekros: or, The Poetics of Biopolitics

Eugene Thacker

21. Grey: A Zombie Ecology

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

22. A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism

Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry

23. “We Arethe Walking Dead”: Race, Time, and Survival in Zombie Narrative

Gerry Canavan

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Previous Publications

Further Reading

Index