Winner, 2021 Ren-ellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association
Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of Narrative
Honorable Mention, 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize, given by the Modern Language Association
Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre
In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afropolitan diaspora of writers like Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie all are woven into Goyal-s argument for the slave narrative as a new world literary genre, exploring the full complexity of this new ethical globalism. From the humanitarian spectacles of Kon
