Gender, Genre, And Race In Post-Neo-Slave Narratives

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.

• | Author: Dana Renee Horton
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Aug 12, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 136 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1793619131
• | ISBN-13: 9781793619136