Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement

ISBN-13: 9781316510803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Andrea Nicholson

Opis

A study of contemporary slave narratives that reveals the conditions and consequences of slavery and the importance of survivors' stories.

Recenzje

'Nicholson's analysis of over 200 contemporary slave narratives provides an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the varieties of severe exploitation grouped under the category of enslavement and is an impassioned plea to patiently listen to the voices of survivors. Especially important are her discussions of the myriad ways that survivors exercise agency and attempt to reclaim their identities, as well as the very complex meanings of freedom among those currently enslaved and those notionally freed from enslavement.' William Paul Simmons, author of Joyful Human Rights and Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A narrated self: The contemporary slave narrative genre; 2. 'I was free, I still wasn't free': Defining freedom; 3. The construction and reconstruction of slave and survivor identities; 4. Bearing witness: Trauma in contemporary slave narratives; 5. Assuming 'full' freedom: Challenges in recovery; 6. Antislavery strategies and the survivor as activist; Conclusion; Appendix: Table of narratives analyzed; Bibliography; Index.