Research Catalog

Title

The new slave narrative : the battle over representations of contemporary slavery / Laura T. Murphy.

Author

Murphy, Laura (Laura T.)

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xxiii, 289 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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 analyzes the representation of modern slavery within the contemporary literary, political, religious, and commercial circumstances that have encouraged the genre's renaissance, as well as within the history of slavery and the slave narrative. Murphy argues that the issue of modern slavery has uncomfortably united the international aid community, liberal human rights activists, and anti-oppression activists with an extensive network of Christian evangelicals, a small group of radical Zionists, and freedom-obsessed neoliberals. In tracing the influence of these groups, Murphy makes transparent the way these narratives, even as they critique the systemic injustices the narrators faced, are coopted and are re-exploited by these organizations and the human rights industry. As a scholar-activist, Murphy brings back to the foreground the aspirations and systemic critiques of the authors that are often obscured by the interests of others"--

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Slave narratives > History and criticism
• Slavery > History > 21st century
• Antislavery movements > History > 21st century
• Antislavery movements
• Slave narratives
• Slavery

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1556

ISBN

• 9780231188241
• 0231188242
• 9780231188258
• 0231188250
• 9780231547734 (canceled/invalid)
• 0231547730 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019002799

OCLC

1115096293

Author

Murphy, Laura (Laura T.), author.

Title

The new slave narrative : the battle over representations of contemporary slavery / Laura T. Murphy.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1556