The Cambridge companion to global literature and slavery / edited by Laura T. Murphy.
"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 slave...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009070928 1009070924 9781009080477 1009080474 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009070928 |