Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides an innovative conceptual framework for describing representations of slavery in twenty-first century American cultural productions. Covering a broad range of narrative forms ranging from novels like The Known World to films like 12 Years a Slave and the music of Missy Elliott, Dana Renee Horton engages with post-neo-slave narratives, a genre she defines as literary and visual texts that mesh conventions of postmodernity with the neo-slave narrative. Focusing on the characterization of black women in these texts, Horton argues that they are portrayed as commodities who commodify enslaved people, a fluid and complex characterization that is a foundational aspect of postmodern identity and emphasizes how postmodern identity restructures the conception of slave-owners.
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Dana Renee Horton Imprint: Lexington Books Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 227mm,
Width: 151mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 218g ISBN:9781793619150 ISBN 10: 1793619158 Pages: 136 Publication Date:22 March 2024 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Dana Renee Horton is assistant professor of English at Mercy College.