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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



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Autore: Hampton Gregory Jerome <1968-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot / / Gregory Jerome Hampton Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (115 p.)
Disciplina: 303.48/3
Soggetto topico: Technology - Social aspects
Technology in popular culture
Slavery - Social aspects
Slavery in art
Androids - Social aspects
Androids in art
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7391-9146-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814834303321
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