Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature /

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Author / Creator:	Murphy, Laura (Laura T.), author.
Imprint:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	West African literature (English) -- History and criticism. Slave trade in literature. Slave trade in literature. West African literature (English) Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11132052

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ISBN:	0821444123 9780821444122 9780821419953 0821419951
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation. Laura T. Murphy's insightful new readings of canonical West African fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry explore the relationship between memory and metaphor and emphasize how repressed or otherwise margina.
Other form:	Print version: 9780821419953 0821419951
Standard no.:	ebr10556489

Table of 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.

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