Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot / Gregory Jerome Hampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hampton, Gregory Jerome, 1968-2019, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Technology in popular culture.

Slavery--Social aspects.

Slavery.

Slavery in art.

Androids--Social aspects.

Androids.

Androids in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (115 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature through popular culture. Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture seeks to gain a better understanding of how slaves are created and justified in the imaginations of a supposedly civilized nation. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of s

Contents:

Introduction : Reading the writing on the wall

Racing robots and making slaves : how the past informs the future

Proslavery thought and the black robot : selling household appliances to Southern belles

The true cult of humanhood : displacing repressed sexuality onto mechanical bodies

The tragic mulatto and the android : imitations of life in literature and on the silver screen

AI (artificial identity) : the new negro

From Fritz Lang to Janelle Monae : black robots singing and dancing

Conclusion : When the revolution comes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-9146-2

OCLC:

922325455