Afterimages of slavery

By Marlene D. Allen, Seretha D. Williams

Subjects: Slaveri i filmen, Massenmedien, Slaveri i litteraturen, Slavery in literature, Literatur, Sklaverei, History and criticism, American prose literature, Slavery in mass media, American prose literature, history and criticism

Description: "Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a "post-racial America," a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries"--Provided by publisher.