Introduction: Raising the Dead
Chapter 1: Life, Death, and Zombies: Who Are the Walking Dead?
Chapter 2: Hungry for Each Other: How Zombie Stories Encourage
Community
Chapter 3: Carrying the Fire: The Ethics of the Zombie
Apocalypse
Chapter 4: And In the End: Is the Zombie Apocalypse Good or
Bad?
Chapter 5: Conclusion: Living with the Living Dead
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Greg Garrett is Professor of English at Baylor University, where he
teaches classes in fiction and screenwriting, literature, film and
popular culture, and theology. Dr. Garrett is also Theologian in
Residence at the American Cathedral in Paris and a licensed lay
preacher in the Episcopal Church. The author or co-author of twenty
books of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir, Dr. Garrett is (according
to BBC Radio), one of America's leading voices on
religion and culture, and a frequent speaker and media guest on
narrative, religion, politics, literature, and pop culture. He
lives with his family in Austin, Texas.
"Greg Garrett's book is a wonderful and occasionally terrifying
tour of the zombie narrative. He gives us fresh insight into our
cultural obsession with the undead, and shows that our troubled
times provoke even more troubled tales. Now that we've unearthed
them, zombies are here to stay, because they are the perfect foil
for exploring human courage, character, and
vulnerability."--Stephen T. Asma, author of On Monsters: An
Unnatural History of Our Worst
Fears
"Greg Garrett approaches his subject with great insight,
intelligence, and sensitivity. The result is well-researched but
highly personal book that makes you feel like you're having a
captivating philosophical discussion about life with a very wise
and learned friend. Despite - or because of - its subject matter,
it's a very human book."--Mark Protosevich, screenwriter of I Am
Legend
"Living with the Living Dead looks into the rotting face of our
most nihilistic fictions and finds them tinged with hope. Showing a
whip smart awareness of the undead in popular culture, Garret goes
beyond examining the zombie as allegory and metaphor. He
brilliantly ponders how the story of the zombie apocalypse
addresses our hope for community, our fear of catastrophe on a
global scale, and even our need to face our own mortality."--W.
Scott Poole,
author of In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary
Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft
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