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008			111213s2012 ilu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9780821444122
020			_z9780821419953 (pb : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aPR9340.5 _b.M87 2012
082	0	4	_a820.93580966 _222
100	1		_aMurphy, Laura _q(Laura T.)
245	1	0	_aMetaphor and the slave trade in West African literature _h[electronic resource] / _cLaura Murphy.
260			_aAthens, Ohio : _bOhio University Press, _c2012. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (p. cm.)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAgainst 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aSlave trade in literature.
650		0	_aWest African literature (English) _xHistory and criticism.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821444122/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c35340 _d35340