RE220 Lecture 9: zombies.docx
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Haiti: the main structure of feeling that a zombie incorporates in a haitian context is a person who has transgressed a social norm, zombie is a figure that is used to maintain social order/cohesion (community, bokor: priests/priestesses who work certain kinds of magic, religion has resisted slavery. Europeans stopped trading with them after they revolted early 20th century hollywood: zombie represents the racial tension, representation of blackness and african based religion (seen as primitive by white americans and potentially evil, validation for white american fear/control of blackness interaction of america with haiti and other developing post colonial nations worldwide, white women need to be protected by white men, not many zombie films or zombies in the films late 20th century hollywood, romero films late 60"s, night of the living dead , zombies are white and black people are the heroes.
