
Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates
The New Yorker: Fiction
Zombi Is a Creature of Horror
Zombi is usually classified, in a sense, as a horror story. In this case, there is actually no vented horror. These are humans who were being killed. What the title s doing is it's directing you to not read it as mimetic fiction. And i think joyce said that she wanted to write a piece of fiction in which there was nothing that hadn't actually happened.
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