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Informationen zum Autor Pietro Deandrea is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Torino, Italy Klappentext This book studies literary and visual representations of the many and diverse forms of slavery in Britain produced by globalisation since the early 1990s. It focuses on a wide range of works, from Ruth Rendell's pioneering crime novel Simisola through to the many authors who concentrated on Britain's new slaves in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Starting with an overview of the sociological and political analyses on the issue, the book develops critical paradigms in the field of cultural and literary studies in order to read the phenomenon of Britain's new slaveries. In doing so, it combines postcolonial and Holocaust studies in an original twin perspective that employs, as interpretive models, the recurrent tropes of the ghost and the concentration camp, whose manifold shapes populate the contemporary British landscape. The volume argues that approaching a topical issue such as new slaveries brings to the fore new, fertile directions for the future of both postcolonial and Holocaust studies, seen here as mutually enriching.This innovative study includes works by novelists and crime writers (Chris Abani, Chris Cleave, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin), film directors (Nick Broomfield), photographers (Dana Popa), playwrights (Clare Bayley, Cora Bissett and Stef Smith, Abi Morgan, Lucy Kirkwood) and dystopian artists such as Alfonso Cuarón, PD James and Salman Rushdie. It will therefore appeal to a variety of students and scholars in English, postcolonial, Holocaust, globalisation and slavery studies. Zusammenfassung A 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I1. Crossing the 2007 Bicentenary: transatlantic memory and the slaves of globalisation2. New slaveries in literature and the visual arts3. Troping new slaveries: ghosts of postcolonialism, Marx and deconstruction4. Troping new slaveries: Holocaust studies and the concentration camp5. A theory in the making6. Argument and outline of the bookPart II7. Investigating migrant domestic workers 8. Bridget Anderson's Britain's Secret Slaves (1993)9. Ruth Rendell's Simisola (1994)Part III10. The ghost and the concentration camp in the twenty-first century11. 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 humour15. Chasing the overworld: Ian Rankin's Fleshmarket Close (2004) and the crime storyPart IV16. The British concentrationary archipelago in cinema, photography and drama17. 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 V20. Dystopian narratives21. 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 VI23. Conclusion24. Spectralising the camp25. Post colonialism, new slaveries and bordersIndex...
