The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-316-51264-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted therein. Literary scholars of China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa provide original scholarly arguments about some of the most trenchant themes that arise in the literatures of slavery – authentication and legitimation, ethnic formation and globalization, displacement, exile, and alienation, representation and metaphorization, and resistance and liberation. This Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery is designed to highlight the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and collectively challenge the reductive notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Laura Murphy; Part I. Contexts and Contestation: 1. Genres of Slavery and Human Rights Alexandra S. Moore; 2. Humanitarian Attachments: Contemporary Anti-Slavery and Anti-Trafficking Discourses Wendy Hesford; Part II: Forms and Figures: 3. Speculative African Slaveries Matthew Omelsky; 4. Marginalization and Servitude in Ghanaian Digital Spaces Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang; 5. Enslavement and Forced Marriage in Uyghur Literature David Brophy; 6. Transactional Domesticity in the Qing Domestic Novel Johanna Ransmeier; 7. The Language of Slavery in the Mongolian Literary Tradition Samuel Bass; Part III. Legacies And Afterlives: 8. Slavery and the Virtual Archive: On Iran's Dash Akul Parisa Vaziri; 9. Impossible Revolutions? The Contemporary Afterlives of the Medieval Slave Rebellion of the Zendj Martino Lovato; 10. Slavery and Indenture in the Literatures of the Indian Ocean World Nienke Boer; 11. Rehearsing the Past: The Terrestrial Middle Passage in Uwem Akpan's 'Fattening for Gabon' Supriya Nair; Part IV. Metaphors and Migrations: 12. Itineraries of Arabic across Oceans and Continents: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Muslim Slave Writing in the Americas Jason Frydman; 13. Apartheid's Ghosts: Slavery in the Literary Imagination Kirk Sides; 14. African Boat Narratives, Disposable Bodies, and the New Native Survivor Subha Xavier; 15. Mediterranean Afterlives of Slavery: Refugees and the Politics of Saving Ewa Macura-Nnamdi; Further Reading; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Murphy, Laura
Laura Murphy is Professor of Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery at Sheffield Hallam University's Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice. She is also the author of Freedomville: The Story of a 21st Century Slave Revolt, The New Slave Narrative: The Battle over Representations of Contemporary Slavery, and Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center and the British Academy.