A New-Historicist Approach to the Zombie Narratives of William Buchler Seabrook's The Magic Island

Abstract

            The present study undertakes to study  the Zombie Narrative of William Buchler Seabrook's The Magic Island from the New Historicist perspective.

New Historicism as a title has been given to the American branch of “cultural poetics”. Stephen Greenblatt is considered one of its originating voices, with edition to many other founders. He believes that the personal culture infiltrates both, the text as well as the critic. All the New Historians believe that cultural, the historical period, and the political events shape our personality and this will be automatically reflected in the text and critique, this effect cannot be escaped, thus this leads to making each critic having his point of view.