The New Slave Narrative : The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery /

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A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, survivors of contemporary forms of enslavement from around the world have revived a powerful tool of the abolitionist movement: first-person narratives of slavery and freedom. Just as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and ot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murphy, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Antislavery movements > History > 21st century.
Slave narratives > History and criticism.
Slave narratives.
Slavery > History > 21st century.
Slavery.
Slaves > Social conditions.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishing.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Language
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative in the Twenty- First Century
  • Chapter One. Making Slavery Legible
  • Chapter Two. The Not- Yet- Freedom Narrative
  • Chapter Three. Blackface Abolition
  • Chapter Four. Sex Problems and Antislavery's Cognitive Dissonance
  • Chapter Five. What the Genre Creates, It Destroys: The Rise and Fall of Somaly Mam
  • Conclusion: Collegial Reading
  • Appendix: List of New Slave Narratives
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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