The new slave narrative : the battle over representations of contemporary slavery /

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murphy, Laura (Laura T.) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Slave narratives.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
Récits d'esclaves.
Esclaves > Conditions sociales.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Slave narratives
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative in the Twenty-First Century
  • Making Slavery Legible
  • The Not-Yet-Freedom Narrative
  • Blackface Abolition
  • Sex Problems and Antislavery's Cognitive Dissonance
  • What the Genre Creates, It Destroys : The Rise and Fall of Somaly Mam
  • Conclusion: Collegial Reading
  • Appendix : List of New Slave Narratives.

Similar Items