Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
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Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature
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The work Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- 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
- 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
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