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Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature [electronic resource] / Laura Murphy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. cm.)ISBN:
  • 9780821444122
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 820.93580966 22
LOC classification:
  • PR9340.5 .M87 2012
Online resources:
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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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.

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