Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a ""post-racial America,"" a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The new essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Ranging from disciplines as diverse as African American studies, film and television, architectural studies, and science fiction, the essays provide a provocative look into how and why slavery continues to recur as a trope in American popular…mehr
Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a ""post-racial America,"" a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The new essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Ranging from disciplines as diverse as African American studies, film and television, architectural studies, and science fiction, the essays provide a provocative look into how and why slavery continues to recur as a trope in American popular culture. By exploring how authors, filmmakers, historians, and others engage and challenge the narrative of American slavery, this volume invites further study of slavery in its contemporary forms of human trafficking and forced labor and challenges the misconception that slavery is an event of the past.
Marlene D. Allen is an associate professor of English Literature at United Arab Emirates University and has published several articles on African American literature, especially speculative fiction. Seretha D. Williams is an associate professor of English at Augusta State University in Georgia, where she has also served as the interim director for women's studies and the coordinator for minority advising.
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Table of Contents Preface Part I. Reading and Writing Slavery Meditation, Misremembering, Creativity, and Healing in Zakes Mda's Cion SERETHA D. WILLIAMS Black Women's Ghostly Re-visions of History JOANNE CHASSOT Inhabitants of Borderlands: (An)other World of Subjugation ULA GABRIELLE GAHA "If I Allow Myself to Listen": Slavery, Historiography, and Historical Audition in David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident NICOLE BRITTINGHAM FURLONGE Tricksterism, Masquerades, and the Legacy of the African Diasporic Past in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber MARLENE D. ALLEN Written on the Walls: Reflections of Shifting Definitions of Slavery and Self in Toni Morrison's A Mercy EUGENIA P. BRYAN The Laveau Folk Heroine: Contemporary Fiction Revises the Slave Narrative TATIA JACOBSON JORDAN Part II. Visualizing and Positioning Slavery Hottentot Venus: Unsettling the Linear Time of History and Science ELJKA VRLJUGA Hollywood's White Legal Heroes and the Legacy of Slave Codes KATIE ROSE GUEST PRYAL The Slave's Cabin: From the Back of the Big House to the National Register of Historic Places ANGELITA REYES "Commence the Great Work": The Historical Archive and Unspeakable Violence in Kyle Baker's Nat Turner JONATHAN W. GRAY A Comic Routine: The Place of Slavery in Identity Formation for the Twenty-First Century LAURA MAE LINDO The Slavery of the Machine ALEXIS HARLEY About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Preface Part I. Reading and Writing Slavery Meditation, Misremembering, Creativity, and Healing in Zakes Mda's Cion SERETHA D. WILLIAMS Black Women's Ghostly Re-visions of History JOANNE CHASSOT Inhabitants of Borderlands: (An)other World of Subjugation ULA GABRIELLE GAHA "If I Allow Myself to Listen": Slavery, Historiography, and Historical Audition in David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident NICOLE BRITTINGHAM FURLONGE Tricksterism, Masquerades, and the Legacy of the African Diasporic Past in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber MARLENE D. ALLEN Written on the Walls: Reflections of Shifting Definitions of Slavery and Self in Toni Morrison's A Mercy EUGENIA P. BRYAN The Laveau Folk Heroine: Contemporary Fiction Revises the Slave Narrative TATIA JACOBSON JORDAN Part II. Visualizing and Positioning Slavery Hottentot Venus: Unsettling the Linear Time of History and Science ELJKA VRLJUGA Hollywood's White Legal Heroes and the Legacy of Slave Codes KATIE ROSE GUEST PRYAL The Slave's Cabin: From the Back of the Big House to the National Register of Historic Places ANGELITA REYES "Commence the Great Work": The Historical Archive and Unspeakable Violence in Kyle Baker's Nat Turner JONATHAN W. GRAY A Comic Routine: The Place of Slavery in Identity Formation for the Twenty-First Century LAURA MAE LINDO The Slavery of the Machine ALEXIS HARLEY About the Contributors Index
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