From the West Indies to the world: the zombie pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i32p82-97Keywords:
zombie, monster, Caribbean, West Indies, entertainment, inment industry, othernessAbstract
The zombie was already “born” hybrid: with African ancestral elements, fused with European beliefs and appropriated through colonial times as a control tool over slave groups, later unfolded as a prejudiced and limiting reading of West Indian cultures, and finally (with its last additions) hitting a blow on Western public — and on Capitalism —, the monster conciliates conceptual and existential paradoxes and accepts countless interpretative layers, for a wide variety of researches and reflections on Human Sciences. Flooding beyond mythology to the press, art and entertainment fields, always mutually imbricated, the zombie, fluid and contemporary, allows the thinking of otherness and likeness, and blurs some limits that other monsters tend to leave intact.
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