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 po
After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between
The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the
Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays suggests the