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Laura T. Murphy's The New Slave Narrative will become the foundational text for a wave of scholars working to understand what these stories mean-for society, for scholarship, and for survivors themselves. -- Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, author of <i>What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do</i> The New Slave Narrative highlights the centrality of first-person testimony to twenty-first-century efforts to abolish global slavery. By centering autobiographical accounts written by survivors of slavery, Laura T. Murphy attends to how testimonial appeals to distant audiences can re-shape human rights discourse and reinvigorate antislavery activism, even as they cannot evade old forms of cooptation. Murphy deftly returns the leadership of antislavery agendas to those who have survived it. -- Leigh Gilmore, author of <i>Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives</i>

The New Slave Narrative highlights the centrality of first-person testimony to twenty-first century efforts to abolish global slavery. By centering autobiographical accounts written by survivors of slavery, Laura T. Murphy attends to how testimonial appeals to distant audiences can re-shape human rights discourse and reinvigorate antislavery activism, even as they cannot evade old forms of cooptation. Murphy deftly returns the leadership of antislavery agendas to those who have survived it. -- Leigh Gilmore, author of <i>Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives</i>

The New Slave Narrative highlights the centrality of first-person testimony to twenty-first-century efforts to abolish global slavery. By centering autobiographical accounts written by survivors of slavery, Laura T. Murphy attends to how testimonial appeals to distant audiences can re-shape human rights discourse and reinvigorate antislavery activism, even as they cannot evade old forms of cooptation. Murphy deftly returns the leadership of antislavery agendas to those who have survived it. -- Leigh Gilmore, author of <i>Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives</i>

Laura T. Murphy's The New Slave Narrative will become the foundational text for a wave of scholars working to understand what these stories mean-for society, for scholarship, and for survivors themselves. -- Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, author of <i>What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do</i> The New Slave Narrative highlights the centrality of first-person testimony to twenty-first-century efforts to abolish global slavery. By centering autobiographical accounts written by survivors of slavery, Laura T. Murphy attends to how testimonial appeals to distant audiences can reshape human rights discourse and reinvigorate antislavery activism, even as they cannot evade old forms of cooptation. Murphy deftly returns the leadership of antislavery agendas to those who have survived it. -- Leigh Gilmore, author of <i>Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives</i> The New Slave Narrative is an important, foundational text-a book that unstops our ears and opens our minds. -- Kevin Bales, author of <i>Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World</i> In The New Slave Narrative, Laura T. Murphy, a literary scholar and antislavery activist, provides a timely and rigorous examination of the current narratives of contemporary slavery. Through meticulous readings of these recent volumes, Murphy reveals the profound influence of nineteenth-century slave narratives on these stories, examining how antebellum conventions impact the representations of those who have been recently enslaved. Brilliantly unraveling the political and social milieu in which twenty-first-century slave narratives are produced and published, Murphy makes a convincing argument for a collegial literary critical approach in order to deepen our understanding of slavery and freedom. The New Slave Narrative is a critically important consideration of human rights discourse. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University

In The New Slave Narrative, Laura T. Murphy, a literary scholar and antislavery activist, provides a timely and rigorous examination of the current narratives of contemporary slavery. Through meticulous readings of these recent volumes, Murphy reveals the profound influence of nineteenth-century slave narratives on these stories, examining how antebellum conventions impact the representations of those who have been recently enslaved. Brilliantly unraveling the political and social milieu in which twenty-first-century slave narratives are produced and published, Murphy makes a convincing argument for a collegial literary critical approach in order to deepen our understanding of slavery and freedom. The New Slave Narrative is a critically important consideration of human rights discourse. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University The New Slave Narrative is an important, foundational text-a book that unstops our ears and opens our minds. -- Kevin Bales, author of <i>Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World</i> The New Slave Narrative highlights the centrality of first-person testimony to twenty-first-century efforts to abolish global slavery. By centering autobiographical accounts written by survivors of slavery, Laura T. Murphy attends to how testimonial appeals to distant audiences can reshape human rights discourse and reinvigorate antislavery activism, even as they cannot evade old forms of cooptation. Murphy deftly returns the leadership of antislavery agendas to those who have survived it. -- Leigh Gilmore, author of <i>Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives</i> Laura T. Murphy's The New Slave Narrative will become the foundational text for a wave of scholars working to understand what these stories mean-for society, for scholarship, and for survivors themselves. -- Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, author of <i>What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do</i>

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Laura T. Murphy is professor of human rights and contemporary slavery in the Helena Kennedy Center for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University and author of Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives (Columbia, 2014).

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