TY - BOOK AU - Saboro,Emmanuel TI - Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives T2 - Studies in Global Slavery SN - 9789004500198 AV - PL8010 U1 - 809 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Slavery in literature KW - Human body in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Note On the Transcriptions and Translations -- Foreword -- Martin A. Klein and Sandra E. Greene -- Introduction : Envisioning the Past in the Present: Hearing the Unsaid -- Chapter 1 : Remembering a Fractured Past: Historicizing Violence, Captivity, and Enslavement in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2 : The Song as a Cultural and Historical Archive for Reconstructing the Past -- Chapter 3 : 'Unspeakable Things Spoken': Cultural Constructions of Trauma, Mourning Loss -- Chapter 4 : "Sins of Our Fathers": Re-Reading Indigenous Complicity Narratives -- Chapter 5 : "We are Free at Last": Local Adaptations and Indigenous Resistance Strategies against Captivity and Enslavement in the Hinterland -- Conclusion -- Freedom beyond the Wound and the Silences -- Bibliography N2 - "Emmanuel Saboro's study on memories of the slave era in northern Ghana is a most welcome addition to a long and storied scholarly tradition examining song lyrics associated with the institution of slavery. As one might expect, the vast majority of such studies focus on the music traditions of the enslaved in North America. Collected between the mid-19th and early 20th century, historians, musicologist, and literary scholars have systematically analyzed these songs for what the lyrics can tell us about experiences during the era of slavery and the slave trade. Similar works that focus on West Africa, however, are rare indeed. Like his North American counterparts, Saboro examines the songs of northern Ghana as coded messages that express hope, comfort, resistance, rage and triumph over adversity. Having "no fixed meanings", Saboro describes them as both flexible and greatly useful for conveying a variety of meanings"-- UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004500198 ER -