TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy,Laura
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
SN  - 9780821444122
AV  - PR9340.5 .M87 2012
U1  - 820.93580966 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Slave trade in literature
KW  - West African literature (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821444122/
ER  -