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050 00 $aPR9340.5$b.M87 2012
082 04 $a820.93580966$222
100 1 $aMurphy, Laura$q(Laura T.)
245 10 $aMetaphors of the slave trade in West African literature /$cLaura Murphy.
260 $aAthens, Ohio :$bOhio University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1205
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $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.
650 0 $aWest African literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSlave trade in literature.