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9780821419953

Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature

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  • ISBN13:

    9780821419953

  • ISBN10:

    0821419951

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-05-15
  • Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

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Summary

Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature 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.

Author Biography

Laura T. Murphy is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans, Her work has appeared in Research in African Literatures and in Studies in the Novel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. v
Introductionp. vii
Against Amnesia: Metaphor and Memory in West Africap. 1
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 Ghostsp. 47
Geographies of Memory: Mapping Slavery's Recurrence in Ben Okri's The Famished Roadp. 75
The Curse of Constant Remembrance: The Belated Trauma of the Slave Trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragmentsp. 106
Childless Mothers and Dead Husbands: The Enslavement of Intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's Secret Language of Memoryp. 133
The Suffering of Survivalp. 169
Epilogue: The Future of the Past: The New Historical Fictionp. 180
Notesp. 195
Bibliographyp. 219
Indexp. 237
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