僵尸启示录中的游乐场：野性的孩子

IF 0.4 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Gothic Studies Pub Date : 2019-05-15 DOI:10.3366/GOTHIC.2019.0009

L. Nevárez

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摘要

在AMC美剧《行尸走肉》的《the Grove》(4.14)这一集中，Lizzie和Mika Samuels这对姐妹以及两个在丧尸大灾难中幸存下来的孩子残忍地结束了他们的生命。莉齐，不再能够分辨生死，杀死了米卡，卡罗尔反过来射杀了莉齐，声称莉齐“不能与人相处”。这些角色让人对人与动物、野蛮与文明之间的分界线产生了质疑——如果在既定社会崩溃的情况下还有一条分界线的话。本文分析了AMC电视台的《行尸走肉》和马克斯·布鲁克斯的小说《僵尸世界大战》，其中的主题包括让孩子重新融入社会，组建社区或群体，在这些社区中，孩子们可能会重新成为有贡献的人。在这种情况下看待孩子，观众和读者对“恐怖”的反应更像是对现实生活中被虐待和忽视的“野性”孩子的反应，而不是僵尸主题的文本所产生的“恐怖”。

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Playgrounds in the Zombie Apocalypse: The Feral Child

In the episode ‘The Grove’ (4.14) from AMC's The Walking Dead, Lizzie and Mika Samuels, sisters and two of the child survivors of the zombie apocalypse, brutally meet their ends. Lizzie, no longer able to distinguish between life and death, kills Mika, and Carol in turn shoots Lizzie, claiming that Lizzie ‘can't be around people’. These characters call into question the dividing line – if one remains, as established society crumbles – between human and animal, feral and civilised. The texts analysed in this article, AMC's The Walking Dead and Max Brooks's novel World War Z, include themes of re-socialising children and forming communities, or packs, in which the children can perhaps become rehabilitated into productive contributors. Viewing children in this light summons up viewer and reader responses to ‘horror’ that are more in keeping with reactions to real-life cases of abused and neglected ‘feral’ children than with the ‘horror’ produced by a zombie-themed text.

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Gothic Studies HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： The official journal of the International Gothic Association considers the field of Gothic studies from the eighteenth century to the present day. Gothic Studies opens a forum for dialogue and cultural criticism, and provides a specialist journal for scholars working in a field which is today taught or researched in academic institutions around the globe. The journal invites contributions from scholars working within any period of the Gothic; interdisciplinary scholarship is especially welcome, as are studies of works across the range of media, beyond the written word.