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Runaway genres : the global afterlives of slavery /

"In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afropolitan diaspora...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goyal, Yogita (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the genres of slavery
  • Sentimental globalism
  • The gothic child
  • Post-black satire
  • Talking books (talking back)
  • We need new diasporas
  • Epilogue : what we talk about when we talk about slavery.