- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 243 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Against amnesia: metaphors and memory in West Africa -- Magical capture in a landscape of terror: the trope of the body in the bag in Amos Tutuola's My life in the bush of ghosts -- Geographies of memory: mapping slavery's recurrence in Ben Okri's The famished road -- The curse of constant remembrance: the belated trauma of the slave trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments -- Childless mothers and dead husbands: the enslavement of intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's secret language of memory -- The suffering of survival -- The future of the past: the new historical fiction.
- LCCN
- 2011051426
- OCLC
- ssj0000646752
- Author
Murphy, Laura (Laura T.)
- Title
Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature [electronic resource] / Laura Murphy.
- Imprint
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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