Metafora zombie – od woduistycznej wizji świata do neoliberalizmu

The subject of Santana Murawska’s chapter The Zombie Metaphor—from the Vodouistic Vision of the World to Neoliberalism is the figure of zombie in mainstream filmography and its purpose is to show zombie as a metaphor (used in films since the 1930s). Murawska focuses here on the use of the zombie metaphor in three cycles of movies. The first cycle begins with White Zombie and refers to the Haitian beliefs. The second cycle comprises the movies featuring the character of a mad scientist or the participation of aliens. The third cycle begins with Night of the Living Dead and uses zombie as a figure of the living dead. The chapter, therefore, discusses three metaphors: zombie as slavery, zombie as an external threat, and zombie as an ideology. All cycles are connected by the character of bokor—a sorcerer in the Haitian tradition. The ways of using zombies as metaphors indicate culturally significant fears and traumas, which are decoded by discourse analysis.