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Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt - Couverture souple

Murphy, Laura T.

 
9781734420746: Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 173442074X ISBN 13 : 9781734420746
Editeur : Columbia Global Reports, 2021

Synopsis

A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?

Millions of people today are still enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who founded their own town of Azad Nagar--Freedomville--after staging a rebellion against their slaveholders. International organizations championed it as a non-violent "silent revolution" that inspired other villagers to fight for their own freedom. But Laura T. Murphy, a leading scholar of contemporary global slavery who spent years researching and teaching about Freedomville, found that there was something troubling about Azad Nagar's success.

Murphy embarks on a Rashomon-like retelling--a complex, constantly changing narrative of a murder that captures better than any sanitized account just why it is that slavery continues to exist in the twenty-first century. Freedomville's enormous struggle to gain and maintain liberty shows us how realistic it is to expect radical change without violent protest--and how a global construction boom is deepening and broadening the alienation of impoverished people around the world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Laura T. Murphy is Professor of Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She is the author of The New Slave Narrative: The Battle over Representations of Contemporary Slavery, Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives, and Metaphor and the Slave Trade in Western African Literature. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the British Academy, and the National Humanities Center. She divides her time between New Orleans and the United Kingdom.

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Éditeur
Columbia Global Reports
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
173442074X
ISBN 13 
9781734420746
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
150
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Personne responsable
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