Into the bush of ghosts: Specters of the slave trade in West African fiction

Research in African Literatures

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 141-152

  Murphy, Laura ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67649749276     PISSN: 00345210     EISSN: 15272044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/RAL.2007.38.4.141     Document Type: Article

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