Titlebook: Corporeal Legacies in the US South; Memory and Embodimen Christopher Lloyd Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 E

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sis, Animal Studies, posthumanism, and Environmental Studies.This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in lite

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ster’s film . (2001) in light of this racialized continuum, the chapter argues that the film traffics in physical, psychic, and geographical spaces of southern memory. Following the film’s focus on its characters’ bodies—vomiting, breathless, fat, thin, incarcerated—the argument is that memories of

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es . (2010–) and Bennett Sims’ novel . (2013). Beginning with a consideration of the post-apocalyptic genre in the southern imaginary, the chapter then reviews the zombie’s ubiquity in contemporary culture and theory. Tracking the zombie’s transnational history requires an understanding of its roots

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el . (2010) through the lens of embodiment in and around toilets, especially the materialization of feces and urine. Extending the psycho/somatic logics of Chap. ., the chapter shows how the black body in this historical novel is shaped by Jim Crow segregation in the southern home. Beginning with a

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specially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and longstanding racial dispossession. The chapter unpacks the knotty world of multispecies life, first through the novel’s obvious comparisons between people and nonhuman animals, and then through the character Skeetah, who is close to his pit bull. Ending