The Unknown Painter

"The Unknown Painter", subtitled "A Story of Murillo's Pupil",[1] is a short story by an anonymous author that has been claimed falsely to include the first English-language use of the word 'zombi(e)'.[2] (Zombie was spelled without an 'e' until the 1900s). The story is a fable about Murillo's pupil Sebastián Gómez, who according to the story made changes to certain paintings at night. It was printed originally in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal during the 1830s. It was reprinted in 1838 in the Alton Telegraph of Alton, Illinois, and reprinted subsequently, with changes, multiple times in other American newspapers.[3]

In fact the original version of the story[1] did not include the word 'zombi', which seems to have been added in the text and the title in later American reprints.[4] The actual first use of the word "zombi" in English, as recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary, was in 1819, prior to the publication of the story.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Rose of the Valley". G.G. Moore. August 11, 1839 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Clemens, Luis (15 December 2013). "Zoinks! Tracing The History Of 'Zombie' From Haiti To The CDC". National Public Radio CodeSwitch. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  3. ^ Kordas, Ann (2011). "New South, New Immigrants, New Women, New Zombies: The Historical Development of the Zombie in American Popular Culture". In Christopher Moreman and Cory Rushton (ed.). Race, oppression and the zombie : essays on cross-cultural appropriation of the Caribbean tradition. Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 16. ISBN 9780786459117.
  4. ^ See, e.g. the version in the "Pacific Appeal" of 5 July 1862 (accessed 23 May 2014).
  5. ^ "Zombie"[permanent dead link], in Oxford English Dictionary Online (subscription required), accessed 23 May 2014
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