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

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

"In The New Slave Narrative, Murphy analyzes a diverse body of book-length, first-person accounts of modern slavery--which cover a wide spectrum of forced labor including chattel slavery, child soldiering, inherited debt bondage, and sexual slavery--to trace the re-emergence of the genre. She a...

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Main Author: Murphy, Laura (Laura T.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Slave narratives > History and criticism.
Slavery > History > 21st century.
Antislavery movements > History > 21st century.
Récits d'esclaves > Histoire et critique.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Antislavery movements.
Slave narratives.
Slavery.
Literatur
Menschenhandel
Menschenhandel > Motiv
Narrativ > Grammatik
Neoliberalismus
Sklaverei
Sklaverei > Motiv
Esclavage > 1990-....
Esclavage > Récits personnels.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > 1990-....
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The reemergence of the slave narrative in the 21st 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.

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