Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
2012.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.