Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot

This study examines the relationship between technology and human nature through popular culture. It illustrates how slaves are created and justified in the imaginations of a "civilized" nation, highlighting the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of slavery continues to be utilized in contemporary society.

Author: Gregory Jerome Hampton
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 07/20/2017
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d
ISBN13: 9781498527583
ISBN10: 1498527582
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Slavery

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