- Description
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 289 pages) : illustrations.
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- New slave narrative (Online)
- Alternative Title
- New slave narrative (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-272) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780231547734
- LCCN
- 2019002799
- OCLC
- ssj0002233930
- Author
Murphy, Laura (Laura T.)
- Title
The new slave narrative [electronic resource] : the battle over representations of contemporary slavery / Laura T. Murphy.
- Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-272) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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