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

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Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives is written by Dana Renee Horton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 179361914X (ISBN 10) and 9781793619143 (ISBN 13).

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.