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The New Slave Narrative - The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery (Paperback)
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The New Slave Narrative - The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery (Paperback)
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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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