* Winner of the African Literature Association's First Book Award
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.
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