A review by jayrothermel
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst

3.0

A solid survey of the zombie trope from colonial Haiti to today, exploring the idea that "the history of the zombie is one of continual transport, translation and transformation, since it emerged from within the nexus of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial occupation. The zombie is born in transit, in between cultures, and is thus always susceptible to rapid reworking."

Only a few errors of fact: J. Edgar Hoover headed the FBI, not the CIA (page 138), for instance.