{"product_id":"runaway-genres-9781479829590","title":"Runaway Genres","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner, 2021 René Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2021 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003egiven by the International Society for the Study of Narrative\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHonorable Mention, 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize, given by the Modern Language Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Runaway Genres\u003c\/i\u003e, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afropolitan diaspora of writers like Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie all are woven into Goyal’s argument for the slave narrative as a new world literary genre, exploring the full complexity of this new ethical globalism. From the humanitarian spectacles of Kony 2012 and #BringBackOurGirls through gothic literature, \u003ci\u003eRunaway Genres\u003c\/i\u003e unravels, for instance, how and why the African child soldier has now appeared as the afterlife of the Atlantic slave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoyal argues that in order to fathom forms of freedom and bondage today—from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to genocide—we must turn to contemporary literature, which reveals how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the slave narrative. Exploring the ethics and aesthetics of globalism, the book presents alternative conceptions of human rights, showing that the revival and proliferation of slave narratives offers not just an occasion to revisit the Atlantic past, but also for re-narrating the global present. In reassessing these legacies and their ongoing relation to race and the human,\u003ci\u003e Runaway Genres\u003c\/i\u003e creates a new map with which to navigate contemporary black diaspora literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yogita Goyal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48272932438267,"sku":"9781479829590","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_b329b73f-f280-4273-976b-c76437528ae7.jpg?v=1770999058","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/runaway-genres-9781479829590","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}