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  1. The new slave narrative
    the battle over representations of contemporary slavery
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
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  2. The new slave narrative
    the battle over representations of contemporary slavery
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    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.... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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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 others used autobiographical testimonies in the fight to eradicate slavery, today's new slave narrators play a crucial role in shaping an antislavery agenda. Their writings unveil the systemic underpinnings of global slavery while critiquing the precarity of their hard-fought freedom. At the same time, the demands of antislavery organizations, religious groups, and book publishers circumscribe the voices of the enslaved, coopting their narratives in support of alternative agendas. In this pathbreaking interdisciplinary study, Laura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. She analyzes a diverse range of dozens of book-length accounts of modern slavery from Africa, Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, examining the narrative strategies that survivors of slavery employ to make their experiences legible and to promote a reinvigorated antislavery agenda. By putting these stories into conversation with one another, The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change that offers an urgent critique of the systems that maintain contemporary slavery, as well as of the human rights industry and the antislavery movement

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780231188258; 9780231188241
    RVK Categories: EC 5207 ; MS 2250 ; NW 8295
    Subjects: Sklaverei <Motiv>; Menschenhandel <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: xxiii, 289 Seiten, Illustrationen
  3. <<The>> new slave narrative
    the battle over representations of contemporary slavery
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
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  4. The new slave narrative
    the battle over representations of contemporary slavery
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    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.... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Europa-Universität Viadrina, Universitätsbibliothek
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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 others used autobiographical testimonies in the fight to eradicate slavery, today's new slave narrators play a crucial role in shaping an antislavery agenda. Their writings unveil the systemic underpinnings of global slavery while critiquing the precarity of their hard-fought freedom. At the same time, the demands of antislavery organizations, religious groups, and book publishers circumscribe the voices of the enslaved, coopting their narratives in support of alternative agendas. In this pathbreaking interdisciplinary study, Laura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. She analyzes a diverse range of dozens of book-length accounts of modern slavery from Africa, Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, examining the narrative strategies that survivors of slavery employ to make their experiences legible and to promote a reinvigorated antislavery agenda. By putting these stories into conversation with one another, The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change that offers an urgent critique of the systems that maintain contemporary slavery, as well as of the human rights industry and the antislavery movement

     

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    Content information
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780231188258; 9780231188241
    RVK Categories: EC 5207 ; MS 2250 ; NW 8295
    Subjects: Sklaverei <Motiv>; Menschenhandel <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: xxiii, 289 Seiten, Illustrationen