Zombies have become ubiquitous in recent years in all media, including digital games. Zombies have no soul or consciousness, and as completely alien, post-human Other, they seem like the perfect game opponent. Yet their portrayal is always politically charged, as they have historically been used as an allegory for slavery, poverty, and consumerism, and may be read as stand-ins for threatening b...

Since the late 1990s, theories and practices of ecocriticism have tended to be more politically engaged than in its earliest phase, considering that “environmental problems cannot solved without addressing issues wealth poverty, overconsumption, underdevelopment, notion resource scarcity” (Heise 251-2). This paper engages with political orientation by examining presentations humans nature three...

The author presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race-associated differences in health outcomes, as well as for designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences. She then presents an allegory about a gardener with 2 flowe...

allegory has a special place in farsi language and literature. so lots of persian literature works have allegory. gol & norouz the valuable work of khajoi kermani also benefits allegory. indeed the writer of this work has used allegory in this work and allegory is used in whole story, sometimes as a story and sometimes as a proverb. with analysis and we have shown that norouz shows a good perso...

The literary genre of dystopian fiction grew out of the larger science fiction genre during the first half of the 20th century. Distinctive of dystopian fiction is a tendency towards allegory. Books in the genre use allegory to make statements on a wide range of subjects. Dystopian novels often tackle political and religious issues, as well as societal issues more generally. Ray Bradbury’s Fahr...

This article examines how David Schalko’s series Braunschlag (2012) presents a community that is threatened by disintegrative forces and dysfunctional communications. The read as political allegory on postmodernist struggles in Austrian culture – laboratory for western European societies general between globalisation provincialism. As this linked to aspects of popular the series, includes theor...

The Buried Giant is now established as an uncanny precursor of emerging “Brexlit” canon. However, Ishiguro’s long-held interest in how nations other than Britain forget, remember and memorialise their pasts, together with his response to civil conflict resolution the 1990s, should modify overly “presentist” Brexit interpretations. Integrating Giorgio Agamben’s work on Greek idea stasis war, I a...