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Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives

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Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides a new, innovative conceptual framework for describing representations of slavery in twenty-first century American cultural productions. Covering a broad range of narrative forms from short stories and 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 slaves, a fluid and complex characterization that is a foundational characteristic of postmodern identity and emphasizes how postmodern identity restructures the conception of slave-owners.
Dana Renee Horton is assistant professor of English at Mercy College.
Introduction Chapter 1 - The Female Slaveholder Narrative: Challenging the Plantation Mistress Trope in Property and The Wedding Gift Chapter 2 - "Sometimes, One Must Become a Master to Avoid Becoming a Slave": Cane River, The Known World, and The Postmodern Black Plantation Mistress Chapter 3 - "You will sell the negress!":Revising Representations of Women in Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave Chapter 4 - "The Rap Purist": The Plantation Mistress in Hip Hop Music Conclusion - Towards a Black Feminist Counternarrative
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