Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature

This book argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction, not only through the traditional concept of surveillance (top-down), but also the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below).

Aceasta carte pledeaza pentru existenta unor interconexiuni profunde, adesea neexaminate, intre gen si rasa, urmarind modul in care supravegherea migreaza de la literatura despre sclavie la fictiune criminala, gotica si politista, nu numai prin conceptul traditional de supraveghere (de sus in jos), dar si tactica sousveillancei (vizionarea de jos).