Narratives of Dependency: Textual Representations of Slavery, Captivity, and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies

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Narratives of Dependency

Textual Representations of Slavery, Captivity, and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies

Edited by: Elke Brüggen and Marion Gymnich

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 11 | Dependency and Slavery Studies

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Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types of texts. Using written and oral narratives in attempts to reconstruct the history of asymmetrical dependency comes along with various methodological challenges, as the 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume illustrate. They focus on a wide range of different (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions from Egyptian tombs, biblical stories, novels from antiquity, the Middle High German Rolandslied, Ottoman court records, captivity narratives, travelogues, the American gift book The Liberty Bell, and oral narratives by Caribbean Hindu women. Most of the texts discussed in this volume have so far received comparatively little attention in slavery and dependency studies. The volume thus also seeks to broaden the archive of texts that are deemed relevant in research on the histories of asymmetrical dependencies, bringing together perspectives from disciplines such as Egyptology, theology, literary studies, history, and anthropology.

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Elke Brüggen and Marion Gymnich, University of Bonn, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction – Narratives of Dependency: Examining the History of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies through the Lens of Narrative Texts Marion Gymnich Open Access Download PDF	1
‘I Am the Champion Who Has No Peer!’: The Language of Dependency in the Tomb ‘Biographies’ of Two Ancient Egyptian Nomarchs Honey L. Hammer Open Access Download PDF	15
Narrating Dependency: The Relationship between David and Solomon of Jerusalem and Hiram of Tyre in Hebrew Bible Traditions Markus Saur Open Access Download PDF	33
Transforming Exodus – Second Temple Liberation Narratives from the Perspective of Historical Narratology Hermut Löhr Open Access Download PDF	47
Slavery and its Narratives in Ancient Novels – Stories of ‘Decline and Fall’? Andrea Binsfeld Open Access Download PDF	65
The Dark Side of Proximity: Advice and Betrayal in the Middle High German Rolandslied Clara Hedtrich Open Access Download PDF	79
Dependency Narrated in a Biographic Manual from the Mamluk Sultanate: The al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʿ fī aʿyān al-qarn al-tāsiʿ by al-Sakhāwī (1427–1497) Anna Kollatz Open Access Download PDF	105
Slave Voices in Ottoman Court Records – A Narrative Analysis of the Istanbul Registers from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Veruschka Wagner Open Access Download PDF	141
Narrativity and Dependency: The Captivity of an Ottoman Official in Saint Petersburg (1771–1775) Gül Şen Open Access Download PDF	161
‘The Suffering of the Russians’: The Narration of Captivity and Suffering in the Imaginations about the Ottoman Stranger in Pavel Levašov’s Writings Alexander Bauer Open Access Download PDF	179
Context Matters – The Importance of the Narrative Situation and Actors who Transmit Information for Representations of Experienced Captivity: The Case of the Enslaved Russian Captive Iakov Zinov’ev (1838) Elena Smolarz Open Access Download PDF	199
Narrative, Affective Communities, and Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism in the American Gift Book The Liberty Bell (1839–1858) Pia Wiegmink Open Access Download PDF	213
Narrative Self-Representations of Enslaved People under Slavery Regimes – Myth or Reality? Michael Zeuske Open Access Download PDF	235
Reading Asymmetrical Dependencies in the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Women Travelers in Ottoman Lands Zeynep Yeşim Gökçe Open Access Download PDF	301
Hierarchies and Dependency as a Narrative Legitimation Strategy for Female Leadership in an Islamist Framework: A Case-Study of Zainab al-Ghazali’s Prison Memoirs Miriam Quiering Open Access Download PDF	325
Tattooed Dependencies: Sensory Memory, Structural Violence and Narratives of Suffering among Caribbean Hindu Women Sinah Theres Kloß Open Access Download PDF	347
Index Open Access Download PDF	367

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May 20, 2024

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9783111381824

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May 20, 2024

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9783111379807

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368

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10

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111381824

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Slavery; imprisonment; captivity narrative; dependency

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Scholars of history, literary studies, egyptology, theology, cultural anthropology

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