Introduction
Part I
1. Crossing the 2007 Bicentenary: transatlantic memory and the
slaves of globalisation
2. New slaveries in literature and the visual arts
3. Troping new slaveries: ghosts of postcolonialism, Marx and
deconstruction
4. Troping new slaveries: Holocaust studies and the concentration
camp
5. A theory in the making
6. Argument and outline of the book
Part II
7. Investigating migrant domestic workers
8. Bridget Anderson’s Britain’s Secret Slaves (1993)
9. Ruth Rendell’s Simisola (1994)
Part III
10. The ghost and the concentration camp in the twenty-first
century
11. Recovering the voices and beyond: Louisa Waugh’s Selling Olga
(2006) and Rahila Gupta’s Enslaved (2007)
12. From speaking to inscribing: Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail
(2006)
13. Enslaved childhood and the concentrationary system of detention
centres: Chris Cleave’s The Other Hand (2008)
14. United bloody Nations: Marina Lewycka’s Two Caravans (2007) and
humour
15. Chasing the overworld: Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close (2004)
and the crime story
Part IV
16. The British concentrationary archipelago in cinema, photography
and drama
17. Cinema: reshaping the gothic in Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts
(2006)
18. Photography: behind a screen in Dana Popa’s Not Natasha
(2009)
19. Drama: traumatic deconstructions of the stage in Clare Bayley’s
The Container (2007), Cora Bissett and Stef Smith’s Roadkill
(2011), Abi Morgan’s Fugee (2008) and Lucy Kirkwood’s It Felt Empty
When the Heart Went at First but It Is Alright Now (2009)
Part V
20. Dystopian narratives
21. The camp’s liminal centrality: from PD James’s The Children of
Men (1992) to Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006)
22. Spectral slavery and the disappearing camp: Kazuo Ishiguro’s
Never Let Me Go (2005)
Part VI
23. Conclusion
24. Spectralising the camp
25. Post colonialism, new slaveries and borders
Index
Pietro Deandrea is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Torino, Italy
'This book is carefully structured and moves elegantly through a
range of diverse subjects, from Chinese cockle-pickers to European
sex-trafficking, and media, spanning literature, cinema, theatre
and photography.'
Zoe Bulaitis, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Exeter,
Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, vol. vii (2015)
‘Deandrea’s main purpose is to expose the network of invisibility
and confinement constitutive of new slavery in Britain under
conditions of globalization and neoliberal conjuncture while
shedding light, at the same time, on its ability to seamlessly
infiltrate (and sustain) the everyday structure and logics of
‘respectable’ lives.’
Lidia De Michelis, Università degli Studi di Milano, Altre
Modernita
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