Metaphor And The Slave Trade In West African Literature

Author : Laura T. Murphy
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821444122

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Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature by Laura T. Murphy Pdf

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.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu,James Gibbs
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847010810

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Writing Africa in the Short Story by Ernest Emenyo̲nu,James Gibbs Pdf

The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short story in its rightful place within the study and criticism of African literature.

Author : Helena Woodard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496824158

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Slave Sites on Display by Helena Woodard Pdf

At Senegal’s House of Slaves, Barack Obama’s presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging, and the myth of return—not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself. At the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, up to ten thousand slave decedents lie buried beneath the area around Wall Street, which some of them helped to build and maintain. Their likely descendants, whose activism produced the monument located at that burial site, now occupy its margins. The Bench by the Road slave memorial at Sullivan’s Isle near Charleston reflects the region’s centrality in slavery’s legacy, a legacy made explicit when the murder of nine black parishioners by a white supremacist led to the removal of the Confederate flag from the state’s capitol grounds. Helena Woodard considers whether the historical slave sites that have been commemorated in the global community represent significant progress for the black community or are simply an unforgiving mirror of the present. In Slave Sites on Display: Reflecting Slavery’s Legacy through Contemporary “Flash” Moments, Woodard examines how select modern-day slave sites can be understood as contemporary “flash” moments: specific circumstances and/or seminal events that bind the past to the present. Woodard exposes the complex connections between these slave sites and the impact of race and slavery today. Though they differ from one another, all of these sites are displayed as slave memorials or monuments and function as high-profile tourist attractions. They interpret a story about the history of Atlantic slavery relative to the lived experiences of the diaspora slave descendants that organize and visit the sites.

Author : Laura Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316512647

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The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery by Laura Murphy Pdf

Highlights the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and challenges the notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

Author : Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang,Paul E. Lovejoy,David Vincent Trotman
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106017434546

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Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories by Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang,Paul E. Lovejoy,David Vincent Trotman Pdf

Author : Portia Owusu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000766547

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Spectres from the Past by Portia Owusu Pdf

Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery from literary narratives. The book explores slavery in contemporary West African and African-American literature by looking at the politics of history and memory. It interrogates notions of History and memory by considering the possibility that shared traumas, such as West African and African-American experiences of slavery, can be remembered and historicised differently, according to critical factors such as socio-economic realities, cultural beliefs and familial traditions. At the heart of the book are compelling and new readings of slavery in six literary narratives that draws on cultural philosophies, musicology and linguistics to demonstrate diverse and unusual ways that Black writers in West Africa and North America write about slavery in literature.

Author : Paula von Gleich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110761030

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The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature by Paula von Gleich Pdf

This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the basic methodological approach and recent concepts of captivity and fugitivity in Afro-pessimist and Black feminist theory form the theoretical framework.

Author : Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780810875289

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Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition by Martin A. Klein Pdf

This second edition relates the long and brutal history of slavery and the struggle for abolition using several key features: Chronology Introductory essay Appendixes Bibliography Over 500 cross-referenced entries on forms of slavery, famous slaves and abolitionists, origins of slaves, and current conditions of modern slavery

Author : Zachary Sng
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823288434

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Middling Romanticism by Zachary Sng Pdf

Romanticism is often understood as an age of extremes, yet it also marks the birth of the modern medium in all senses of the word. Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a constitutive principle. Sng argues that Romanticism dislodges such terms as medium, moderation, and mediation from serving as mere self-evident tools that conduct from one pole to another. Instead, they offer a dwelling in and with the middle: an attention to intervals, interstices, and gaps that make these terms central to modern understandings of relation.

Author : Scott Harrower
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501511264

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Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity by Scott Harrower Pdf

Powerful religious elements for living in the aftermath of trauma are embedded within North African Christian hagiographies. The texts of (1) The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, (2) The Account of Montanus, Lucius, and their Companions, and (3) The Life of Cyprian of Carthage are stories that offered post traumatic pathways to recovery for its historical readership. These recovery-oriented beliefs and behaviors promoted positive religious coping strategies that revolved around a sense of safety, re-establishing community relationships, an integrated sense of self, and a hopeful story beyond trauma. This book vividly demonstrates that hagiographies played a vital therapeutic role in helping early Christian trauma survivors recover and flourish in the aftermath of disastrous persecutions.

Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013984

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The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature by Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence by Teresa N. Washington Pdf

Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence: Divinity in Africana Life, Lyrics, and Literature is a remarkable study and the first of its kind. Teresa N. Washington eschews popular culture’s pimp myths and thug sagas and traces the Africana man’s power, creativity, and consciousness to his inherent divinity. Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence takes the reader to the source of power with an analysis of African Divinities and divine technologies. Washington explores the permanence and proliferation of African Gods from oppressive plantations to the empowering proclamations of such leaders as W. D. Fard, Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and Allah, the Father. Washington analyzes the summonses to and from the Gods that resonate in the music of such artists as Erykah Badu, The RZA, Sun Ra, X Clan, and Rakim. Using literary analysis as a prism to display the diversity of Africana divinity, Washington reveals the literature of such writers as August Wilson, Walter Mosley, Toni Morrison, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Ishmael Reed to be three-way mirrors that eternally reflect and project the Gods, their myriad powers, and their weighty responsibilities. Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence will prove indispensable to independent scholars as well as scholars of Comparative Literature, Hip Hop Studies, Gender Studies, Africana Studies, Literary Criticism, and Religious Studies.

Author : Cajetan Iheka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107199170

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Naturalizing Africa by Cajetan Iheka Pdf

This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa. It is a multi-disciplinary text, for both researchers and scholars of African Studies, the environment and postcolonial literature.

Author : Manuel Barcia
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300215854

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The Yellow Demon of Fever by Manuel Barcia Pdf

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.

Author : Sophia A. McClennen,Alexandra Schultheis Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317696285

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights by Sophia A. McClennen,Alexandra Schultheis Moore Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani, Jonathan E. Abel, Elizabeth S. Anker, Arturo Arias, Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes, Erik Doxtader, Marc D. Falkoff, Keith P. Feldman, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Audrey J. Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg Jensen, Luz Angélica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Greg Mullins, Laura T. Murphy, Hanna Musiol, Makau Mutua, Zoe Norridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders, Karen-Magrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski, Sidonie Smith, Domna Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer, Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.