Description
Book SynopsisA study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.
Trade Review'This book is carefully structured and moves elegantly through a range of diverse subjects, from Chinese cockle-pickers to European sex-trafficking, and media, spanning literature, cinema, theatre and photography.'
Zoe Bulaitis, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Exeter, Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, vol. vii (2015)
‘Deandrea’s main purpose is to expose the network of invisibility and confinement constitutive of new slavery in Britain under conditions of globalization and neoliberal conjuncture while shedding light, at the same time, on its ability to seamlessly infiltrate (and sustain) the everyday structure and logics of ‘respectable’ lives.’
Lidia De Michelis, Università degli Studi di Milano, Altre Modernita
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I
1. Crossing the 2007 Bicentenary: transatlantic memory and the slaves of globalisation
2. New slaveries in literature and the visual arts
3. Troping new slaveries: ghosts of postcolonialism, Marx and deconstruction
4. Troping new slaveries: Holocaust studies and the concentration camp
5. A theory in the making
6. Argument and outline of the book
Part II
7. Investigating migrant domestic workers
8. Bridget Anderson’s Britain’s Secret Slaves (1993)
9. Ruth Rendell’s Simisola (1994)
Part III
10. The ghost and the concentration camp in the twenty-first century
11. Recovering the voices and beyond: Louisa Waugh’s Selling Olga (2006) and Rahila Gupta’s Enslaved (2007)
12. From speaking to inscribing: Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail (2006)
13. Enslaved childhood and the concentrationary system of detention centres: Chris Cleave’s The Other Hand (2008)
14. United bloody Nations: Marina Lewycka’s Two Caravans (2007) and humour
15. Chasing the overworld: Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close (2004) and the crime story
Part IV
16. The British concentrationary archipelago in cinema, photography and drama
17. Cinema: reshaping the gothic in Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts (2006)
18. Photography: behind a screen in Dana Popa’s Not Natasha (2009)
19. Drama: traumatic deconstructions of the stage in Clare Bayley’s The Container (2007), Cora Bissett and Stef Smith’s Roadkill (2011), Abi Morgan’s Fugee (2008) and Lucy Kirkwood’s It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First but It Is Alright Now (2009)
Part V
20. Dystopian narratives
21. The camp’s liminal centrality: from PD James’s The Children of Men (1992) to Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006)
22. Spectral slavery and the disappearing camp: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005)
Part VI
23. Conclusion
24. Spectralising the camp
25. Post colonialism, new slaveries and borders
Index
