I'm not afraid: Zombies, video games, and life after death. (June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roselló, Jarod
• Other Names: Osgood Jayne guest-editor.; de Rijke Victoria guest-editor.; Sakr Mona guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Contemporary issues in early childhood. Volume 18:Number 2(2017:Jun.)
• Page Start: 145
• Page End: 161
• Publication Date: 2017-06
• Subjects: Arts-based research -- childhood -- comics -- literacies -- video games -- zombies; Child development -- Periodicals; Early childhood education -- Periodicals; Children -- Periodicals; Social work with children -- Periodicals; 305.231
• DOI: 10.1177/1463949117714077
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1463-9491

Abstract

My daughter has always been drawn to the frightening and the spooky, with a special interest in zombies. When she was four years old, she and I played a zombie video game together which instigated a series of zombie-related events. This article is a collection of metonymic moments rendered in comics and writing, that revisits these events as memories and experiences grouped conceptually, aesthetically, and narratively around zombies. Presented as a series of narrative fragments, this article explores the tension between parenthood and childhood, and considers the chaotic, unpredictable, and pedagogical entanglements between storytelling, literacy, drawing, and playing.