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Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47261] Author:	MurphyLaura,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Athens, Ohio
[NT 47263] Published:	Ohio University Press;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2012
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (ix, 243 p.).
[NT 47266] Subject:	Slave trade in literature -
[NT 47266] Subject:	West African literature (English) - History and criticism -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821444122/
[NT 47265] Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780821444122electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780821419953pbk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	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 -- Geographiesof 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 mothersand dead husbands: the enslavement of intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's secret language of memory -- Thesuffering of survival -- The future of the past: the new historical fiction

Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
Murphy, Laura

Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature / Laura Murphy - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (ix, 243 p.)..
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 -- Geographiesof 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 mothersand dead husbands: the enslavement of intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's secret language of memory -- Thesuffering of survival -- The future of the past: the new historical fiction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780821444122ISBN 9780821419953
Slave trade in literatureWest African literature (English) -- History and criticism

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