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.
By:
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
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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
Dana Renee Horton is assistant professor of English at Mercy College.
