Armah, Ayi Kwei

This dissertation explores the use of teleological eschatology in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross and Matigari , Nuruddin Farah's Secrets and Close Sesame , and Ayi Kwei Armah's 2000 Seasons and The Healers . In my reading of these three African writers, I noticed all wer…

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Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature

by Murphy, Laura T., slavernij., (Laura Teresa)

fromWestern African studies

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Against amnesia: metaphor 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 o…

Many critics consider nineteenth century British Romanticism one of the most political movements in literary history. A major reason for this claim is that the 19th century is recorded in European history as a watershed of economic, social, and political constructions whose cons…