Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
Murphy, Laura
Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature [electronic resource] / Laura Murphy. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780821444122
Slave trade in literature.
West African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR9340.5 / .M87 2012
820.93580966
Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature [electronic resource] / Laura Murphy. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780821444122
Slave trade in literature.
West African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR9340.5 / .M87 2012
820.93580966