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The Haunting Return of the Mutant Zombie Mink: On Ghost Story Writing as Poetics, Ethics and Method
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4902-624X
2025 (English)In: Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies / [ed] Nina Lykke; Tara Mehrabi; Marietta Radomska, Routledge , 2025, p. 597-608Chapter in book (Refereed)
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In the winter of 2020, all 17 million mink of Denmark were killed and buried in shallow mass graves due to the fear that so-called ‘mutant mink’ might pass on a new variation of Covid-19 to humans; a variation that could not be prevented through vaccination with the vaccines under development at the time. Soon after, their decomposing bodies broke through the ground, rising from their graves, which earned them the name ‘mutant zombie mink’ in the news. In this chapter, Line Henriksen argues that the coverage of the mutant zombie mink was the first time the news presented the mink as active agents in their own story. Drawing on the work by sociologist Avery Gordon, evolutionary biologist Banu Subramaniam and philosopher Jaques Derrida, Henriksen applies the ghost story as well as erasure poetry as tools to retell and reimagine the story of the mutant zombie mink. She suggests that learning to see what has been made invisible – that is: learning to see ghosts and tell their stories – can be a first step in order to do justice to the dead.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-81226DOI: 10.4324/9781003398486-60Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105024147435ISBN: 9781032504384 (print)ISBN: 9781003398486 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-81226DiVA, id: diva2:2021992
Available from: 2025-12-16 Created: 2025-12-16 Last updated: 2025-12-16Bibliographically approved

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