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African Studies Seminar: The New Slave Narrative and the Transitive Property of African Suffering
17 January 2019, 1:15 pm–2:45 pm
The UCL African Studies Seminar welcomes Laura Murphy, U. of Nottingham and Loyola University New Orleans, for the first seminar of this autumn term: ‘The New Slave Narrative and the Transitive Property of African Suffering’. Seminars will take place every other Thursday this term. This seminar will exceptionally take place in the IAS Common Ground.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
Location
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IAS Common GroundGround floor, South Wing, UCLLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
In this talk, Dr. Laura Murphy will discuss her new book The New Slave Narrative, which takes a cultural studies approach to the recent reemergence of the slave narrative genre. She will present some of the contours of the genre's renaissance, including some of the political, social, and economic reasons why the slave narrative reappears at the turn of the 21st century. She will focus this talk on a post-9/11 strand of antislavery Islamophobia that she has dubbed "blackface abolition," as it plays on a "transitive property of African suffering" through age-old tropes familiar from the slave narrative tradition.
Download the Winter 2019 programme here.
All welcome.
This seminar series is convened by the African Studies Research Centre/IAS:
- Dr. Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (h.neveu@ucl.ac.uk)
- Prof. Megan Vaughan (megan.vaughan@ucl.ac.uk)
- Dr. Keren Weitzberg (k.weitzberg@ucl.ac.uk)