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The Genres of Slavery
Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Angeles
April 24, 2019 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 103 Chancellor Green
Department of English
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This lecture tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template for understanding contemporary human rights abuses. To fathom forms of freedom and bondage today — from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to conscription in war — Goyal will discuss how contemporary literature draws on the antebellum genre of the slave narrative, reinventing such key narrative tendencies as sentimentalism, the gothic, satire, ventriloquism, and the bildungsroman.