Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen

The figure of the zombie that entered the popular imagination with the publication of William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929)--during the American occupation of Haiti--still holds cultural currency around the world. This book calls for a rethinking of zombies in a sociopolitical context through the examination of several films, including White Zombie (1932), The Love Wanga (1935), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). A 21st-century film from Haiti, Zombi candidat a la presidence ... ou les amours d'un zombi, is also examined. A reading of Heading South (2005), a film about the female tourist industry in the Caribbean, explores zombification as a consumptive process driven by capitalism.

Author: Toni Pressley-Sanon
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 08/02/2016
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780786494248

About the Author
Toni Pressley-Sanon is an assistant professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.