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- The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
- The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts and Contestation
- Part II Forms and Figures
- Chapter 3 Speculative African Slaveries
- Chapter 4 Contemporary and Historical Slavery in West African Digital Literature
- Chapter 5 Enslavement and Forced Marriage in Uyghur Literature
- Chapter 6 Consuming Slavery in China’s Epic Domestic Novels
- Chapter 7 The Language of Slavery in the Mongolian Literary Tradition
- Part III Legacies and Afterlives
- Part IV Metaphors and Migrations
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Chapter 4 - Contemporary and Historical Slavery in West African Digital Literature
from Part II - Forms and Figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2022
- The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
- The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts and Contestation
- Part II Forms and Figures
- Chapter 3 Speculative African Slaveries
- Chapter 4 Contemporary and Historical Slavery in West African Digital Literature
- Chapter 5 Enslavement and Forced Marriage in Uyghur Literature
- Chapter 6 Consuming Slavery in China’s Epic Domestic Novels
- Chapter 7 The Language of Slavery in the Mongolian Literary Tradition
- Part III Legacies and Afterlives
- Part IV Metaphors and Migrations
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
Generations after the end of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST), West African digital creative writers imagine newer iterations of slavery or recreate parodies of the TAST. Whether a story revolves around a street child hawking goods in Accra traffic, or a gifted child who is trafficked from a village in Nigeria to America, these short stories perpetuate fears of—but also resistance to—new forms of trafficking and labor exploitation that are endemic in the West African sub-region. While research has examined the ways in which these tropes appear in cheap popular fiction, not much has been done regarding new media, such as online short fiction, which is avidly consumed by West African youth. This chapter uses two short stories to interrogate different types of slavery in online spaces and to explore literary choices that inform the treatment of this theme in the digital age.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery , pp. 62 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022