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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (115 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739191460 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 23
LOC classification:
  • T14.5 .H353 2015
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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