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Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
Author
Title
Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature [electronic resource] / Laura T. Murphy.
ISBN
9780821419953 (pb alk. paper)
9780821444122 (e-book)
Published
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
ix, 243 p.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 02, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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