New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts

This book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.

Starting from the sociological and political analyses of the issue, it combines postcolonial and Holocaust studies in a twin perspective based on the recurrent images of the ghost and the concentration camp, whose manifold shapes populate today's Britain.

Discussions focus on a wide range of works: novelists and crime writers such as Chris Abani, Chris Cleave, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin, and Ruth Rendell; film directors like Nick Broomfield; photographers including Dana Popa; playwrights such as Clare Bayley, Cora Bissett and Stef Smith, Abi Morgan, and Lucy Kirkwood; and dystopian artists like Alfonso Cuaron, P. D. James, and Salman Rushdie.

New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts will appeal to both students and scholars in English, postcolonial, Holocaust, globalisation, and slavery studies.