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6 - Neo-Slave Imaginaries

from Part II - African American Genres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2023

By
Christopher Freeburg
Edited by
Yogita Goyal
Yogita Goyal
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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This chapter examines the different aspects of enslaved Africans’ humanity that writers of neo-slave narratives felt was limiting, dehumanizing, or incomplete. To do this, this chapter also investigates the changing trends in the study of the sociology and history of enslaved Africans, speeches by Ossie Davis, and the writings of Octavia Butler, Angela Davis, and Toni Morrison – all of which contributed to ideas about black humanity. This chapter turns the kaleidoscope of neo-slave narrative by looking at a narrower, yet significant, angle of political life, form, and style of being Black and human, in the context of trends in mass consumption that gave shape to the landscape of this fiction about slavery.

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slaverynarrativeneo-slaveblackartshumanity
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The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature , pp. 115 - 127
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Neo-Slave Imaginaries
  • Edited by Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
  • Online publication: 14 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009159708.010
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  • Neo-Slave Imaginaries
  • Edited by Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
  • Online publication: 14 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009159708.010
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  • Neo-Slave Imaginaries
  • Edited by Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
  • Online publication: 14 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009159708.010
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