Gregory Jerome Hampton

Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the relationship between technology and human nature through popular culture. It illustrates how slaves are created and justified in the imaginations of a "civilized" nation, highlighting the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of slavery continues to be utilized in contemporary society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9781498527583
• ISBN-10: 1498527582
• Artikelnr.: 48701125

Autorenporträt

Gregory Hampton is associate professor of African-American literature and is the director of graduate studies in the department of English at Howard University.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Reading the Writing on the Wall CHAPTER 1.
Racing Robots and Making Slaves: How the Past Informs the Future CHAPTER 2.
Proslavery Thought and the Black Robot: Selling Household Appliances to
Southern Belles CHAPTER 3. The True Cult of Humanhood: Displacing Repressed
Sexuality onto Mechanical Bodies CHAPTER 4. The Tragic Mulatto and the
Android: Imitations of Life in Literature and on the Silver Screen CHAPTER
5. AI (Artificial Identity): The New Negro CHAPTER 6. From Fritz Lang to
Janelle Monae: Black Robots Singing and Dancing CONCLUSION When the
Revolution Comes BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX