Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture

by Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, Daniel Cross Turner

Book Overview

Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost Cause that resurrected the fallen heroes of the Confederacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807178586
• ISBN13: 9780807178584
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"