Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
Murphy, Laura
Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature [electronic resource] / Laura T. Murphy. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012. - ix, 243 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
West African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Slave trade in literature.
Electronic books.
PR9340.5 / .M87 2012eb
820.93580966
Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature [electronic resource] / Laura T. Murphy. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012. - ix, 243 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
West African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Slave trade in literature.
Electronic books.
PR9340.5 / .M87 2012eb
820.93580966