Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture: The Americas
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However, Chera Kee notes that following the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934, a fear of cannibalism was replaced with a fear of zombies, and the cannibalistic discourse of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries regarding Haitian Voodoo was replaced with a highly racialized discourse perpetuated by early zombie films (Kee 9– 10). As the zombie continues to develop into the Gothic figure of contemporary representations, often void of any reference to its Haitian history, ...