LEADER 02946nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910814663103321 005 20240405010428.0 010 $a0-8214-4412-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000101899 035 $a(EBL)1757109 035 $a(OCoLC)793494344 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646752 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11370964 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646752 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10589400 035 $a(PQKB)11470038 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1757109 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17783 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1757109 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10556489 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000101899 100 $a20111213d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMetaphor and the slave trade in West African literature /$fLaura T. Murphy 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cOhio University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 225 1 $aWestern African Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1995-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAgainst 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. 330 $aMetaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation. Laura T. Murphy's insightful new readings of canonical West African fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry explore the relationship between memory and metaphor and emphasize how repressed or otherwise margina 410 0$aWestern African Studies 606 $aWest African literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSlave trade in literature 615 0$aWest African literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSlave trade in literature. 676 $a820.93580966 700 $aMurphy$b Laura$g(Laura T.)$01693824 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814663103321 996 $aMetaphor and the slave trade in West African literature$94071907 997 $aUNINA