Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot
Author:   Gregory Jerome Hampton
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9780739191453


Pages:   114
Publication Date:   22 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Gregory Jerome Hampton
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9780739191453


ISBN 10:   0739191454
Pages:   114
Publication Date:   22 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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

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