I Walked with a Zombie : Colonialism and Intertextuality

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  • Teresa de Lauretis Universidad de California-Santa Cruz

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https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.21.21262

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Wal Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Jean Rhys, <em>Wide Sargasso Sea</em>, <em>I Walked with a Zombie</em>, Manuel Puig, <em>The Kiss of the Spider Woman</em>.

Abstract

This article is about some uses of intertextuality between cinema and literature. I Walked with a Zombie (1943) is the second of nine films produced by Val Lewton that shaped the horror genre and had a lasting influence on the language of cinema. Reframing the classic Victorian novel Jane Eyre in a Caribbean setting, the film outlines the fault-lines of the European colonial enterprise long before the advent of postcolonial studies. Jean Rhys’s partly autobiographical novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) rewrites Jane Eyre in a feminist and postcolonial perspective. In Manuel Puig’s novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, cinema and films, including I Walked with a Zombie, are the intertextual means to the creation of literary character and the figure of a love that has no name.

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Teresa de Lauretis, Universidad de California-Santa Cruz

Teresa de Lauretis is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught in the Department of History of Consciousness. Among the numerous awards she has received, the Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Lund (Sweden) and by Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina). She is the author of books that have marked a watershed in different academic and disciplinary fields (semiotics, cinema, cultural studies, feminist and gender theory, queer theory) and have been translated into 18 languages. Among her publications, La sintassi del desiderio (1976), Umberto Eco (1981), Alice Doesn’t (1984), Technologies of Gende r (1987), The Practice of Love (1994), Figures of Resistence (2007), Freud’s Drive (2008) . She is currently working on the relations between spectatorship, the figural and the psychoanalitic notions of translation and transference.

References

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York and London: Bantam Classics, 1981.

De Lauretis, Teresa. «Panteridad: vivir en un cuerpo dañado» EU-topías. Revista de interculturalidad, comunicación y estudios europeos, 4, 2012, pp. 9-18.

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and Lodon: Yale University Press, 1979.

Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman, New York: Vintage Books, 1980.

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. New York and London: W. W. Norton Paperback, 1982 [1966].

Wekker, Gloria. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2016.

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Published

2021-06-30

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de Lauretis, T. (2021). <em>I Walked with a Zombie</em>: Colonialism and Intertextuality. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 21, 23–35. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.21.21262
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