The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in

This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the

Highlights the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and challenges the notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and A