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Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature

By Laura T. Murphy

Book information

Publisher
Ohio University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780821419953, 2011051426
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1385804 bytes)
Series
Western African Studies
Pages
\255
Time added
2021-05-19 02:57:06

Description

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Against Amnesia: Metaphor and Memory in West Africa Chapter Two: 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" Chapter Three: Geographies of Memory: Mapping Slavery's Recurrence in Ben Okri's "The Famished Road" Chapter Four: The Curse of Constant Remembrance: The Belated Trauma of the Slave Trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's "Fragments" Chapter Five: Childless Mothers and Dead Husbands: The Enslavement of Intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's Secret Language of Memory Chapter Six: The Suffering of Survival Epilogue: The Future of the Past: The New Historical Fiction Notes Bibliography Index

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