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The Sub-Subaltern Monster: Imperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie
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The Journal of American Culture
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June 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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With the popular success of the first talkie horror films, Hollywood of the 1930s was anxious to find the next big-screen monster. Surprisingly, the creative efforts of filmmakers lead them not to the usual mythologies of Europe but rather to exotic Caribbean travel literature. Sensational books like William B. Seabrook's The Magic Island of 1929 had begun to draw the American public's attention away from the Old World and toward the New, specifically the island of Haiti. According to Seabrook and other ethnographers, powerful voodoo priests, commanding the knowledge of African mysticism and ritual, were able to kill their enemies and bring them back from the dead as mindless servants. This ...
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