New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts: The Ghost and the Camp

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Pietro Deandrea

New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts

The Ghost and the Camp

Pietro Deandrea

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English

Manchester University Press
29 June 2021

This book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.

Starting from the sociological and political analyses of the issue, it combines postcolonial and Holocaust studies in a twin perspective based on the recurrent images of the ghost and the concentration camp, whose manifold shapes populate today's Britain. Discussions focuses on a wide range of works: novelists and crime writers (Chris Abani, Chris Cleave, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell), film directors (Nick Broomfield), photographers (Dana Popa), playwrights (Clare Bayley, Cora Bissett and Stef Smith, Abi Morgan, Lucy Kirkwood) and dystopian artists such as Alfonso Cuaron, P. D. James and Salman Rushdie. The book will appeal to both students and scholars in English, postcolonial, Holocaust, globalisation and slavery studies.

By: Pietro Deandrea
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9781526155825
ISBN 10: 1526155826
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 29 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pietro Deandrea is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Torino, Italy

Reviews for New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts: The Ghost and the Camp

'This book is carefully structured and moves elegantly through a range of diverse subjects, from Chinese cockle-pickers to European sex-trafficking, and media, spanning literature, cinema, theatre and photography.' Zoe Bulaitis, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Exeter, Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, vol. vii (2015) ‘Deandrea’s main purpose is to expose the network of invisibility and confinement constitutive of new slavery in Britain under conditions of globalization and neoliberal conjuncture while shedding light, at the same time, on its ability to seamlessly infiltrate (and sustain) the everyday structure and logics of ‘respectable’ lives.’ Lidia De Michelis, Università degli Studi di Milano, Altre Modernita -- .