The Resource Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature, Laura Murphy
Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature, Laura Murphy
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The item Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature, Laura Murphy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Metaphor and the Slave Trade 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. Laura T. Murphy's insightful new readings of canonical West African fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry explore the relationship between memory and metaphor and emphasize how repressed or otherwise margina
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780821444122
- Label
- Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
- Title
- Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
- Statement of responsibility
- Laura Murphy
- Subject
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Englisch
- Esclaves -- Dans la littérature
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- African
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literatur
- Sklavenhandel
- Slave trade in literature
- Slave trade in literature
- West African literature (English)
- West African literature (English) -- History and criticism
- Westafrika
- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Metaphor and the Slave Trade 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. Laura T. Murphy's insightful new readings of canonical West African fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry explore the relationship between memory and metaphor and emphasize how repressed or otherwise margina
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Murphy, Laura
- Dewey number
- 820.93580966
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR9340.5
- LC item number
- .M87 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- West African literature (English)
- Slave trade in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- Slave trade in literature
- West African literature (English)
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Sklavenhandel
- Westafrika
- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise
- Esclaves
- Label
- Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature, Laura Murphy
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- 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
- Control code
- 793494344
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780821444122
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other control number
- ebr10556489
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1j69k23
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)793494344
- Label
- Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature, Laura Murphy
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 793494344
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780821444122
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- ebr10556489
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1j69k23
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)793494344
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Englisch
- Esclaves -- Dans la littérature
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- African
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literatur
- Sklavenhandel
- Slave trade in literature
- Slave trade in literature
- West African literature (English)
- West African literature (English) -- History and criticism
- Westafrika
- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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