Introduction / Ezra Tawil -- 1. Slavery in the eighteenth-century literary imagination / Philip Gould -- 2. U.S. antislavery tracts and the literary imagination / Teresa A. Goddu -- 3. White slaves in the late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literary imagination / Joe Shapiro -- 4. Slave narratives as literature / Sarah Meer -- 5. Slavery and the emergence of the African American novel / John C. Havard -- 6. Proslavery fiction / Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson -- 7. The poetry of slavery / Meredith L. McGill -- 8. Reading slavery and 'classic' American literature / Robert S. Levine -- 9. Slavery's performance-texts / Douglas A. Jones, Jr. -- 10. The music and the musical inheritance of slavery / Radiclani Clytus -- 11. U.S. slave revolutions in Atlantic world literature / Paul Giles -- 12. Slavery and American literature 1900-1945 / Tim Armstrong -- 13. Moving pictures: spectacles of enslavement in American cinema / Sharon Willis -- 14. Slavery and historical memory in late-twentieth-century fiction / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy -- 15. Beyond the borders of the neo-slave narrative: science fiction and fantasy / Jeffrey Allen Tucker
