{"product_id":"were-all-infected-essays-on-amcs-the-walking-dead-and-the-fate-of-the-human-9780786476282","title":"\"We're All Infected\": Essays on AMC's The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dawn Keetley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy \u0026amp; Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This edited collection brings together an introduction and 13 original scholarly essays on AMC's \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. The essays in the first section address the pervasive bloodletting of the series: What are the consequences of the series' unremitting violence? Essays explore violence committed in self-defense, racist violence, mass lawlessness, the violence of law enforcement, the violence of mourning, and the violence of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The essays in the second section explore an equally urgent question: What does it mean to be human? Several argue that notions of the human must acknowledge the centrality of the body--the fact that we share a \"blind corporeality\" with the zombie. Others address how the human is closely aligned with language and time, the disappearance of which are represented by the aphasic, timeless zombie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Underlying each essay are the game-changing words of \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/i\u003e's protagonist Rick Grimes to the other survivors: \"We're all infected.\" The violence of the zombie is also our violence; their blind drives are also ours. The human characters of \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/i\u003e may try to define themselves \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c\/i\u003e the zombies but in the end their bodies harbor the zombie virus: they are the walking dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46500900700311,"sku":"9780786476282","price":2835.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786476282.webp?v=1769195810","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/were-all-infected-essays-on-amcs-the-walking-dead-and-the-fate-of-the-human-9780786476282","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}