Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature: Western African Studies
Autor Laura T. Murphyen Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2012
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 marginalized memories can be transmitted through images, tropes, rumors, and fears. By analyzing the unique codes through which West Africans have represented the slave trade, this work foregrounds African literary contributions to Black Atlantic discourse and draws attention to the archive that metaphor unlocks for scholars of all disciplines and fields of study.
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 marginalized memories can be transmitted through images, tropes, rumors, and fears. By analyzing the unique codes through which West Africans have represented the slave trade, this work foregrounds African literary contributions to Black Atlantic discourse and draws attention to the archive that metaphor unlocks for scholars of all disciplines and fields of study.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780821419953
ISBN-10: 0821419951
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: yes
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Western African Studies
ISBN-10: 0821419951
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: yes
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Western African Studies
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Recenzii
“Metaphor and the Slave Trade is a book that is long overdue in African literary studies. Using many of the literary canon’s most read texts, the author has presented a new perspective in the reading of these and other texts of African literature, opening the way forward for readers to nuance each and every African text for the subtle metaphors that point to a people’s memory of the slave trade.”—African Studies Quarterly
“Original and challenging…(Murphy) argues that while it has been acknowledged that the oral tradition registers the traumatic effect of the slave trade, scholars have been slow to recognize its deep imprint on the collective imaginary and the way in which it has been reflected in the modern literature in English.”—F. Abiola Irele, author of The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora
“Murphy brings to the foreground a hitherto concealed trove of metaphors that, while inspired by the dark, long and gruesome history of slavery in West Africa, will prove to be a highly suggestive resource for re-thinking African literary history. A timely and highly innovative work.”—Ato Quayson, editor of the Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature
“Drawing on the writings of Tutuola, Okri, Armah and Aidoo, Laura Murphy demonstrates how modern authors of fiction in Africa employ metaphors of the slave trade to reflect cultural memory of a past that is always alive in the present, no matter how obscure.”—Paul E. Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, York University
“A well-researched and beautifully written textual study…authoritative and carefully argued.”—Stephanie Newell
Notă biografică
Laura T. Murphy is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in Research in African Literatures and in Studies in the Novel.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One: Against Amnesia
Metaphor and Memory in West Africa - Two: 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 - Three: Geographies of Memory
Mapping Slavery’s Recurrence in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road - Four: The Curse of Constant Remembrance
The Belated Trauma of the Slave Trade in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments - Five: Childless Mothers and Dead Husbands
The Enslavement of Intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Secret Language of Memory - Six: The Suffering of Survival
- Epilogue: The Future of the Past
The New Historical Fiction - Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the the transatlantic slave trade, Metaphor and the Slave Trade shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation and persist in West African discourse.