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      When the Zombies Came for Our Children: Exploring Posthumanism in Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead

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          Through the theoretical lens of cultural posthumanism, this essay offers a reading of writer Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead comics series (2003 ongoing). By referring to specific passages of Kirkman’s script, this essay explores The Walking Dead’s psychologization of childhood as its narrative moves away from a satirical construction of the zombie apocalypse into the inquiry of contemporary (in)humanity.

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                Journal
                2048-0792
                The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
                Open Library of Humanities
                2048-0792
                21 January 2016
                : 6
                : 1
                : 2
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                [-1]Central Michigan University, United States
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                10.16995/cg.40
                baf6b910-dbd9-4996-975e-fe80e0a86cf3
                Copyright: © 2016 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                Literary studies
                humanism,The Walking Dead,zombies,childhood,posthumanism
                Literary studies
                humanism, The Walking Dead, zombies, childhood, posthumanism

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