The New Slave Narrative : : The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery / / Laura Murphy.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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