The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery

Highlights the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and challenges the notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

Laura Murphy (Edited by)

9781316512647, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 December 2022

300 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.59 kg

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.

Introduction Laura Murphy
Part I. Contexts and Contestation: 1. Genres of Slavery and Human Rights Alexandra S. Moore
2. Humanitarian Attachments: Contemporary Anti-Slavery and Anti-Trafficking Discourses Wendy Hesford
Part II: Forms and Figures: 3. Speculative African Slaveries Matthew Omelsky
4. Marginalization and Servitude in Ghanaian Digital Spaces Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
5. Enslavement and Forced Marriage in Uyghur Literature David Brophy
6. Transactional Domesticity in the Qing Domestic Novel Johanna Ransmeier
7. The Language of Slavery in the Mongolian Literary Tradition Samuel Bass
Part III. Legacies And Afterlives: 8. Slavery and the Virtual Archive: On Iran's D?sh ?kul Parisa Vaziri
9. Impossible Revolutions? The Contemporary Afterlives of the Medieval Slave Rebellion of the Zendj Martino Lovato
10. Slavery and Indenture in the Literatures of the Indian Ocean World Nienke Boer
11. Rehearsing the Past: The Terrestrial Middle Passage in Uwem Akpan's 'Fattening for Gabon' Supriya Nair
Part IV. Metaphors and Migrations: 12. Itineraries of Arabic across Oceans and Continents: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Muslim Slave Writing in the Americas Jason Frydman
13. Apartheid's Ghosts: Slavery in the Literary Imagination Kirk Sides
14. African Boat Narratives, Disposable Bodies, and the New Native Survivor Subha Xavier
15. Mediterranean Afterlives of Slavery: Refugees and the Politics of Saving Ewa Macura-Nnamdi
Further Reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Human rights [JPVH], Slavery & abolition of slavery [HBTS], Literary studies: general [DSB]