Description: Table of Contents Preface: A Note from the Editors Introduction: The Rise of the Written Dead (Angela Tenga and Kyle William Bishop) Section One: Zombie Literature--First Words, Baby Steps Trailing the Zombie Through Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature (Kevin Alexander Boon) The Attributes and Qualifiers of Literary Zombies (Bernard Perron) Love, Connection and Intimacy in Zombie Short Fiction (Laura Hubner) Section Two: Max Brooks--Rite of Passage Analyzing Late Modernity with a Corpse: Max Brooks' Zombie Understanding of Modernity (Marcus Leaning) Dispatches of the Dead: World War Z and the Post-Vietnam Combat Memoir (W. Scott Poole) Section Three: The Zombie Novel--Coming of Carrie Ryan's Romance of the Forest: Mudos, Young Adult Novels and the Gothic (Cory James Rushton) Toward a Genealogy of the American Zombie Novel: From Jack London to Colson Whitehead (Wylie Lenz) "Systems Die Hard": Resistance and Reanimation in Colson Whitehead's Zone One (Kelli Shermeyer) Section Four: Revisionist Novels--Entering Maturity "Condemned to history by the Hate": David J. Moody's Hater and Postmillennial Rage (Dawn Keetley) The Psychosomatic Zombie Man: The Postmodern Subject in Warm Bodies (Steven Holmes) Feeding the Frenzy: Mira Grant's Feed (Arnold T. Blumberg) Teaching Zombies, Developing Students: Pedagogical Success in The Girl with All the Gifts (Kyle William Bishop) Desiring Machines: Zombies, Automata and Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Jesse Stommel) Afterword: The Zombie Is Dead: Long Live the Zombie (Robert G. Weiner) Filmography Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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