Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen
by
Toni Pressley-Sanon
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
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...