{"product_id":"imagining-slaves-and-robots-in-literature-film-and-popular-culture-9781498527583","title":"Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday''s Slave with Tomorrow''s Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of slavery continues to be utilized in contemporary society. This text interrogates how the domestic slaves of the past are being re-imaged as domestic robots of the future. Hampton asserts that the rhetoric used to persuade an entire nation to become dependent on the institution of chattel slavery will be employed to promote the enslavement of technology in the form of humanoid robots with Artificial Intelligence. Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture makes the claim that science fiction, film, and popular culture have all been used to normalize the notion of robots in domestic spaces an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS \tINTRODUCTION\t\tReading the Writing on the Wall CHAPTER 1.\t\tRacing Robots and Making Slaves: How the Past Informs the Future CHAPTER 2.\tProslavery Thought and the Black Robot: Selling Household Appliances to Southern Belles CHAPTER 3.\tThe True Cult of Humanhood: Displacing Repressed Sexuality onto Mechanical Bodies CHAPTER 4.\tThe Tragic Mulatto and the Android: Imitations of Life in Literature and on the Silver Screen CHAPTER 5.\t\tAI (Artificial Identity): The New Negro CHAPTER 6.\tFrom Fritz Lang to Janelle Monae: Black Robots Singing and Dancing \tCONCLUSION\t\tWhen the Revolution Comes \tBIBLIOGRAPHY \tINDEX","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040691847511,"sku":"9781498527583","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498527583.jpg?v=1750947536","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-slaves-and-robots-in-literature-film-and-popular-culture-9781498527583","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}