02949nam 2200565 a 450 991077926690332120230802005149.00-8214-4412-3(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 literatureWest African literature (English)History and criticism.Slave trade in literature.820.93580966Murphy Laura(Laura T.)1569756MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779266903321Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature3842833UNINA