In English Oxford Living Dictionaries (n.d) the origin of zombie is from West Africa for it was informed by Oxford English Dictionary. …show more content…
The occupation of Haiti was the event of United State marines who had being ordered by the president of US to be sent into Haiti to fix order and sustain political and economic stability in Caribbean . Then, the word and mythos of zombie started to appear in fiction, television and movie. However, the date of first fictional with description of zombie was disputable. There were a lots of them.
Moreover, Coe (2014) mentioned, a 1929 book titled ‘The Magic Island’ by journalist William Seabrook usually was the cause of the exposure of zombie into mainstream American culture. The book told about a personal zombie slaves in the voodoo cults of Haiti and it does contain a word ‘zombie’.
However, today’s zombie that people know started with the appearance of a 1968 film by George A. Romero which was ‘Night of the Living Dead’. The film depicted a living corpse with a taste of flesh, irrational, infection through bites, slow movement and lack of balance. The film was a kicked start of a new kind of zombie’s movie and also adapted the traditional belief of zombie.
English Oxford Living Dictionaries (n.d) mentioned, today, the meaning of zombie not only focusing on living dead but now varies to others which