Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita Goyal analyzes the tensions between romance and realism in the literature of the African diaspora, examining a remarkably diverse group of twentieth-century authors, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Chinua Achebe, Richard Wright, Ama Ata Aidoo and Caryl Phillips. Shifting the center of black diaspora studies by considering Africa as constitutive of black modernity rather than its forgotten past, Goyal argues that it is through the figure of romance that the possibility of diaspora is imagined across time and space. Drawing on literature, political history and postcolonial theory, this significant addition to the cross-cultural study of literatures will be of interest to scholars of African American studies, African studies and American literary studies.

Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 159)

Literature & Fiction

Goyal, Yogita

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery

Review\n"A richly textured and startlingly original meditation on the meaning and uses of contemporary ‘neo-slave narratives.’ Displaying an impressive analytical sophistication and historical depth, Yogita Goyal reveals how these new narratives open a window onto a range of contemporary global developments, from human trafficking to illegal immigration, child soldiering to forced marriage, debt bondage to domestic servitude. Essential and timely, Runaway Genres cements Yogita Goyal’s position as one of the most gifted intellectuals of her generation." -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original\n"In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal brings a totally new perspective to the study of slavery and race and their effects on the global imagination. Combining a mastery of the archive of slavery with careful arguments and nuanced theoretical claims, this book is bound to transform the way we think about American literature, endowing it with a fresh transnationalism." -- Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University\n"A persuasive argument not only for slave narratives’ enduring relevance but for their particular urgency in our historical moment. … In this essential contribution to the field, Goyal lays bare the recursive pain of U.S. slavery, the challenges of writing and reading its ‘unspeakable’ horrors, and what is at stake when we analogize slave narratives with contemporary crises across the globe." ― Black Perspectives\n"Argues that analogies to slavery do not adequately explain modern-day abuses ... Goyal provides examples of recent African and African American novelists who have exploded this sentimental framework. In place of inevitable freedom, they offer more complicated and unsettling endings." ― Choice\n"Any library that considers itself a research library should procure a copy of this impressive study, which makes a significant contribution to the fields of American, African, African American, and comparative literary studies." ― Papers on Language and Literature\nWinner, 2021 René Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association\nWinner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of Narrative\nHonorable Mention, 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize, given by the Modern Language Association\nArgues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre\nIn 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 Kony 2012 and #BringBackOurGirls through gothic literature, Runaway Genres unravels, for instance, how and why the African child soldier has now appeared as the afterlife of the Atlantic slave.\nGoyal argues that in order to fathom forms of freedom and bondage today―from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to genocide―we must turn to contemporary literature, which reveals how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the slave narrative. Exploring the ethics and aesthetics of globalism, the book presents alternative conceptions of human rights, showing that the revival and proliferation of slave narratives offers not just an occasion to revisit the Atlantic past, but also for re-narrating the global present. In reassessing these legacies and their ongoing relation to race and the human, Runaway Genres creates a new map with which to navigate contemporary black diaspora literature.

Humor & Satire

NYU Press

Winner, 2021 René Wellek 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 Kony 2012 and #BringBackOurGirls through gothic literature, Runaway Genres unravels, for instance, how and why the African child soldier has now appeared as the afterlife of the Atlantic slave. Goyal argues that in order to fathom forms of freedom and bondage today--from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to genocide--we must turn to contemporary literature, which reveals how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the slave narrative. Exploring the ethics and aesthetics of globalism, the book presents alternative conceptions of human rights, showing that the revival and proliferation of slave narratives offers not just an occasion to revisit the Atlantic past, but also for re-narrating the global present. In reassessing these legacies and their ongoing relation to race and the human, Runaway Genres creates a new map with which to navigate contemporary black diaspora literature.

At the current state of the world, financial organizations expand the availability of financial facilities by employing of innovative services such as credit cards, Automated Teller Machines (ATM), internet and mobile banking services. Besides, along with the rapid advances of e-commerce, the use of credit card has become a convenience and necessary part of financial life. Credit card is a payment card supplied to customers as a system of payment. Nowadays, the Credit card usage is increasing day by day for both regular purchases as well as online. In every transaction of credit card, the bank should check the fraud detection. Year after year, the damages inflicted by the credit card fraud problem are growing rapidly. The intention behind these kinds of fraudulence may be obtaining goods without paying, or unauthorized funds from an account. This book is providing an approach for the credit card fraud detection using machine learning. Logistic regression, anomaly detection, and stochastic gradient descent techniques are used in this approach.

Credit Card Fraud Detection and Analysis through Machine Learning

Computers & Technology

Sharma, Anand

Security & Encryption

Eliva Press

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Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 159)

Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 159)

Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery

Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery

Credit Card Fraud Detection and Analysis through Machine Learning