02982nam 2200577 a 450 991045183400332120200520144314.00-8214-4412-3(CKB)2550000000101899(EBL)1757109(OCoLC)793494344(SSID)ssj0000646752(PQKBManifestationID)11370964(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646752(PQKBWorkID)10589400(PQKB)11470038(MiAaPQ)EBC1757109(MdBmJHUP)muse17783(Au-PeEL)EBL1757109(CaPaEBR)ebr10556489(EXLCZ)99255000000010189920111213d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMetaphor and the slave trade in West African literature[electronic resource] /Laura T. MurphyAthens, Ohio Ohio University Press20121 online resource (255 p.)Western African StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-1995-1 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.Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation. Laura T. Murphy's insightful new readings of canonical West African fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry explore the relationship between memory and metaphor and emphasize how repressed or otherwise marginaWestern African StudiesWest African literature (English)History and criticismSlave trade in literatureElectronic books.West African literature (English)History and criticism.Slave trade in literature.820.93580966Murphy Laura(Laura T.)959935MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451834003321Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature2175687UNINA01351nam a2200325 i 450099100119510970753620240201151730.0110505m20099999it bk 000 0cita d8875530386 (v. 1)9788875531041 (v. 2)b13975912-39ule_instBiblioteca Interfacoltàita780.922782.10922Operisti di PugliaBari :Edizioni dal Sud,2009-20102 v. ;24 cm.Percorsi di Teca ;5, 7[1.] :Dalle origini al Settecento /a cura di Lorenzo Mattei ; contributi di Luisa Cosi ... [et al.]. - 2009.- 160 p.[2.] :Dall'Ottocento ai giorni nostri / a cura di Lorenzo Mattei - 2010.- 309 p.Musicisti pugliesiSec. 17.-18.Compositori <musica>PugliaSec. 19.-20.Mattei, Lorenzo<1974- >.b1397591202-04-1405-05-11991001195109707536LE002 SB 780.922 OPEv. 112002000624475le002gE13.00-no00000.i1526412905-05-11LE002 SB 780.922 OPEv. 212002000624482le002gE20.00-no00000.i1526413005-05-11Operisti di Puglia246827UNISALENTOle00205-05-11ma-itait00