White Zombie

The figure of the zombie is perhaps the most overlooked point of contact between Haiti and North America. Despite the familiarity and popularity it enjoys in both cultures, the zombie has not attracted much consideration from scholars, who tend to dismiss it as a phantasm inspired by an anthropological curiosity that contributed to Haiti's bad press through its sensationalist evocations in travel literature and horror films. For instance, Michael Dash argues that Haiti's continuous portrayal as the land of contagion, carnality, cannibals, ...