Laura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change.

Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a 21st-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family values politics. She reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change.

Laura T. Murphy's The New Slave Narrative will become the foundational text for a wave of scholars working to understand what these stories mean-for society, for scholarship, and for survivors themselves.