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A persuasive argument not only for slave narratives' enduring relevance but for their particular urgency in our historical moment. ... In this essential contribution to the field, Goyal lays bare the recursive pain of U.S. slavery, the challenges of writing and reading its 'unspeakable' horrors, and what is at stake when we analogize slave narratives with contemporary crises across the globe. --Black Perspectives In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal brings a totally new perspective to the study of slavery and race and their effects on the global imagination. Combining a mastery of the archive of slavery with careful arguments and nuanced theoretical claims, this book is bound to transform the way we think about American literature, endowing it with a fresh transnationalism. --Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University A richly textured and startlingly original meditation on the meaning and uses of contemporary 'neo-slave narratives.' Displaying an impressive analytical sophistication and historical depth, Yogita Goyal reveals how these new narratives open a window onto a range of contemporary global developments, from human trafficking to illegal immigration, child soldiering to forced marriage, debt bondage to domestic servitude. Essential and timely, Runaway Genres cements Yogita Goyal's position as one of the most gifted intellectuals of her generation. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

A richly textured and startlingly original meditation on the meaning and uses of contemporary 'neo-slave narratives.' Displaying an impressive analytical sophistication and historical depth, Yogita Goyal reveals how these new narratives open a window onto a range of contemporary global developments, from human trafficking to illegal immigration, child soldiering to forced marriage, debt bondage to domestic servitude. Essential and timely, Runaway Genres cements Yogita Goyal's position as one of the most gifted intellectuals of her generation. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of <i>Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original</i> In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal brings a totally new perspective to the study of slavery and race and their effects on the global imagination. Combining a mastery of the archive of slavery with careful arguments and nuanced theoretical claims, this book is bound to transform the way we think about American literature, endowing it with a fresh transnationalism. -- Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University

In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal brings a totally new perspective to the study of slavery and race and their effects on the global imagination. Combining a mastery of the archive of slavery with careful arguments and nuanced theoretical claims, this book is bound to transform the way we think about American literature, endowing it with a fresh transnationalism. --Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University A richly textured and startlingly original meditation on the meaning and uses of contemporary 'neo-slave narratives.' Displaying an impressive analytical sophistication and historical depth, Yogita Goyal reveals how these new narratives open a window onto a range of contemporary global developments, from human trafficking to illegal immigration, child soldiering to forced marriage, debt bondage to domestic servitude. Essential and timely, Runaway Genres cements Yogita Goyal's position as one of the most gifted intellectuals of her generation. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

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Yogita Goyal is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA, author of Romance, Diaspora, and the Black Atlantic Literature and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature. She edits the journal Contemporary Literature and is President of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (A.S.A.P.).

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