03209nam 2200661 450 991081483430332120230126213501.00-7391-9146-2(CKB)3710000000478099(EBL)4085750(SSID)ssj0001552874(PQKBManifestationID)16171675(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001552874(PQKBWorkID)12155900(PQKB)10603451(MiAaPQ)EBC4085750(Au-PeEL)EBL4085750(CaPaEBR)ebr11125080(CaONFJC)MIL832725(OCoLC)922325455(EXLCZ)99371000000047809920150720h20152015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot /Gregory Jerome HamptonLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,[2015]©20151 online resource (115 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-2758-2 0-7391-9145-4 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.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 sTechnologySocial aspectsTechnology in popular cultureSlaverySocial aspectsSlavery in artAndroidsSocial aspectsAndroids in artTechnologySocial aspects.Technology in popular culture.SlaverySocial aspects.Slavery in art.AndroidsSocial aspects.Androids in art.303.48/3Hampton Gregory Jerome1968-1676756MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814834303321Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture4043157UNINA