Metaphors of the slave trade in West African literature
By: Laura Murphy
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821419953
Subjects: History and criticism; Slave trade in literature; West African literature (English)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Against amnesia: metaphors and memory in West Africa; title: 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; title: Geographies of memory:  mapping slavery's recurrence in Ben Okri's The famished road; title: The curse of constant remembrance: the belated trauma of the slave trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments; title: Childless mothers and dead husbands: the enslavement of intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's secret language of memory; title: The suffering of survival; title: The future of the past: the new historical fiction.