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Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature / Laura Murphy.
- Title
- Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature / Laura Murphy.
- Author
- Murphy, Laura (Laura T.)
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- 243 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Western African studies
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Western African studies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780821419953 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0821419951 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011051426
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library