Bearing Witness
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Bearing Witness

Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement

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eBook - PDF

Bearing Witness

Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement

About this book

Since the 1990s, modern slavery has been recognized as a global problem, with campaigners around the world providing assessments of its nature and extent, its drivers, and possible solutions for ending it. However, largely absent from the global antislavery movement's discourse and policy prescriptions are the voices of survivors of slavery themselves. Survivors' authentic voices are underemployed vital tools in the fight against modern slavery in all its forms. Through close readings of over 200 contemporary slave narratives, Andrea Nicholson repositions the history of the genre and exposes the conditions and consequences of slavery, and the challenges survivors face in liberation. Far from the trope of 'capture, enslavement, escape, ' she argues that narratives are rich and vitally important sources that enable the antislavery community to be gain important insights and build more effective interventions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 A Narrated Self: The Slave Narrative Genre
  13. 2 “I Was Free, I Still Wasn’t Free”: Defining Freedom
  14. 3 The Construction and Reconstruction of Survivor Identities
  15. 4 Bearing Witness: Trauma in Contemporary Slave Narratives
  16. 5 Assuming “Full” Freedom: Challenges in Recovery
  17. 6 Antislavery Strategies and the Survivor as Activist
  18. Conclusion
  19. Appendix: Table of Narratives Analyzed
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index