Imagining Slaves Amp Robots in Lcb

Informationen zum Autor By Gregory Jerome Hampton Klappentext Imagining 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 through popular culture. Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture seeks to gain a better understanding of how slaves are created and justified in the imaginations of a supposedly civilized nation. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Reading the Writing on the WallCHAPTER 1. Racing Robots and Making Slaves: How the Past Informs the FutureCHAPTER 2. Proslavery Thought and the Black Robot: Selling Household Appliances to Southern BellesCHAPTER 3. The True Cult of Humanhood: Displacing Repressed Sexuality onto Mechanical BodiesCHAPTER 4. The Tragic Mulatto and the Android: Imitations of Life in Literature and on the Silver ScreenCHAPTER 5. AI (Artificial Identity): The New NegroCHAPTER 6. From Fritz Lang to Janelle Monae: Black Robots Singing and Dancing CONCLUSION When the Revolution Comes BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

Product details

• Authors: Hampton, Gregory Jerome Hampton, Hampton Gregory Jerome
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9780739191453
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9145-3
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, ART / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Literary studies: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Film Theory & Criticism, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Film history, theory or criticism, The arts: general topics