‘I keep saying “brains”’ – posthuman zombie narratives

Abstract

The article reads a number of recent zombie narratives that include conscious/sentient zombies as narrators or focalizers in the light of posthumanist theory (most prominently Rosi Braidotti’s work). The main argument revolves around the meta-narrative construction of these texts, based on posthuman consciousness, suggesting that they allow readers/viewers to engage with questions of the human and its Others beyond the possibilities of traditional, non-conscious zombie texts.