Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murphy, Laura (Laura T.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Slave trade in literature. West African literature (English) > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.