Laura T. Murphy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura T. Murphy plays a role.
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2024 Chapter 17. The blood-stained-gate: An archive of emotion and authenticity in the new slave narrative A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 313–329 | Chapter
This paper suggests that the slave narrative employs metonymy as an archive of memory when authors are unwilling or unable to articulate the experience of trauma explicitly. Drawing on Frederick Douglass’s use of the “blood-stained gate” metaphor as a repository for his emotional suffering, the… read more