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| 100 | 1 | _aMurphy, Laura T. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aMetaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aAthens, OH : _bOhio University Press, _c2012. |
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| 264 | 4 | _c©2012. | |
| 300 | _a1 online resource (265 pages) | ||
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| 490 | 1 | _aWestern African Studies | |
| 505 | 0 | _aIntro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Against Amnesia: Metaphor and Memory in West Africa -- 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 -- Three Geographies of Memory: Mapping Slavery's Recurrence in Ben Okri's The Famished Road -- Four The Curse of Constant Remembrance: The Belated Trauma of the Slave Trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments -- Five Childless Mothers and Dead Husbands: The Enslavement of Intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's Secret Language of Memory -- Six The Suffering of Survival -- Epilogue The Future of the Past: The New Historical Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | _aThrough an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the the transatlantic slave trade, Metaphor and the Slave Trade shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation and persist in West African discourse. | ||
| 588 | _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
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