The New Slave Narrative: The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery

Author/Contributor(s):	Murphy, Laura
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	09/17/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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. The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change.