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New PDF release: Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational

By Laura Barberán Reinares

At current, the majority of the present examine on intercourse trafficking originates within the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an unique standpoint in this factor by way of reading representations of intercourse trafficking in postcolonial literature.

This ebook is a sustained interdisciplinary research bridging postcolonial literature, in English and Spanish, and intercourse trafficking, as analyzed via literary conception, anthropology, sociology, historical past, trauma idea, journalism, and globalization reports. It encompasses postcolonial idea and literature’s aesthetic research of intercourse trafficking including examine from social sciences, psychology, anthropology, and economics with the purpose of supplying a complete research of the subject past the kind of Orientalist discourse so well-known within the media. this can be a massive and cutting edge source for students in literature, postcolonial reviews, gender reports, human rights and worldwide justice.

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Joseph Slaughter’s seminal Human Rights, Inc. ” (2). 8. For a comprehensive discussion of ethics from a non-Eurocentric perspective, see Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion (2013). In this work, the Argentinean-Mexican philosopher endeavors “to articulate new possibilities for humanity out of and in light of the suffering, dignity, and creative drive of [ … ] peripheral lives,” exploring the possibility of a system not based on the exploitation and exclusion of other human beings (xiii).

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Are there significant parallels between the so-called “white slave trade” of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century and what is now seen as the “new” global sex trade? [ … ] How do feminist theories of agency play out in the contexts where the only free choice may be between submitting or the prospect of beatings, torture, death, or retaliation against relatives? These valid questions will inform my exploration of the selected postcolonial works addressing sex trafficking. In interrogating the narratives named above, I look at the victim-trafficker-consumer triad in order to determine each party’s presence or absence from the text and the implications of these authorial decisions in terms of the discourses these representations legitimize.

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