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

Undead SouthsThe Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture\nAuthor(s): Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, Daniel Cross Turner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807161074, 978-0807161074\nSynopsis\nDepictions 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 as secular saints, and mourning rites revived by Native Americans forcibly removed from the American Southeast.\n\nTo capture the manifold forms of southern haunting and horror, Undead Souths explores a variety of media and historical pe.