Part IV. Introduction / Ewa Macura-Nnamdi Part I. Mediterranean afterlives of slavery : refugees and the politics of saving / Genres of slavery and human rights / Alexandra S. Moore ; Humanitarian attachments : contemporary anti-slavery and anti-trafficking discourses / Wendy S. Hesford -- Part II. Forms and figures. Speculative African slaveries / Matthew Omelsky ; Contemporary and historical slavery in West African digital literature / Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang ; Enslavement and forced marriage in Uyghur literature / David Brophy ; Consuming slavery in China's epic domestic novels / Johanna S. Ransmeier ; The language of slavery in the Mongolian literary tradition / Sam H. Bass -- Part III. Legacies and afterlives. Slavery and the virtual archive : on Iran's Dāsh Ākul / Parisa Vaziri ; Impossible revolutions? The contemporary afterlives of the Medieval slave rebellion of the Zendj / Martino Lovato ; Slavery and indenture in the literatures of the Indian Ocean world / Nienke Boer ; Rehearsing the past : the terrestrial Middle Passage in Uwem Akpan's "Fattening for Gabon" / Supriya M. Nair -- Part IV. Metaphors and migrations. Itineraries of Arabic across oceans and continents : Edward Wilmot Blyden and Muslim slave writing in the Americas / Jason Frydman ; Apartheid's ghosts : slavery in the literary imagination / Kirk B. Sides ; African boat narratives, disposable bodies, and the new native survivor / Subha Xavier ; Mediterranean afterlives of slavery : refugees and the politics of saving / Ewa Macura-Nnamdi
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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