{"id":243,"date":"2023-07-24T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/?p=243"},"modified":"2023-07-25T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:26:01","slug":"contemporary-narratives-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/07\/24\/contemporary-narratives-of-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Narratives of Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Elizabeth Cali<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the debates about what genre conventions define <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/07\/24\/neo-slave-narrative\/\">the neo-slave narrative<\/a> tradition, some scholars \u2013 most notably Arlene Keizer \u2013 have adopted the nomenclature of \u201ccontemporary narratives of slavery\u201d to include a broader range of novels representing racial slavery across the globe. This is an expansive novelistic genre by African American and Black Diaspora writers which represents and explores experiences of enslavement and struggles for liberation as the central focus of the narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth Cali Given the debates about what genre conventions define the neo-slave narrative tradition, some scholars \u2013 most notably Arlene Keizer \u2013 have adopted the nomenclature of \u201ccontemporary narratives of slavery\u201d to include a broader range of novels representing racial slavery across the globe. This is an expansive novelistic genre by African American and <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/07\/24\/contemporary-narratives-of-slavery\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Contemporary Narratives of Slavery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}