| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
West African literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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West African literature (English) |
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Slave trade in literature.
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Slave trade in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780821419953 0821419951 (DLC) 2011051426 |
| ISBN |
0821444123 (electronic book) |
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9780821444122 (electronic book) |
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9780821419953 (pb : alkaline paper) |
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0821419951 (pb : alkaline paper) |
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