“An American Pathology”: Reading Americanah as Quest Romance
As Adichie remarked in an interview about the novel: “I am more or less expected, or maybe permitted, to […]
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“A Bitter Americanizing”: Gendered Violence in the Aftermath of Slavery
Americanah is part of a discourse that diversifies notions of Blackness in the diaspora. This is what Goyal asserts when
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”True from Experience”: Reception and the Realness of Racialization
Writing about the 19th-century realist novel in The Bourgeois, Franco Moretti argues that “description as a form was not neutral
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You Can’t Write an Honest Novel About Race in This Country
Reading for RaceBoth in terms of style and content, the Washington Times opinion piece resembles Ifemelu’s successful race blog in
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Independent Women Romance, Return, and Pan-African Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
”Since I must not all the same allow you to look at the future through rose coloured glasses, you should
In the Swirl of Other People’s Stories
Toward an Ethics of ListeningBenjamin develops his Angel of History – the historical materialist view of history – apropos the
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Voices Cut Out of the Past Into the Present”
Blackness in Diaspora TimeThe ambiguity of its metahistorical purport notwithstanding, Open City provides a staunch critique of totalizing aspirations of
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“To Experience the Pain Afresh”
Metahistory and the Circling Movement of MelancholiaCompared to the other novels I discuss in this book, Open City addresses the
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”To Trace Out a Story”: Narrating Movement and the Movement of Narrative
With its vast array of historico-ontological and metaphorical connotations, movement can easily be identified as a master trope of the
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Chapter II Going Through The Motions Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole’s Open City
Chapter II Going Through The Motions Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole’s Open City”[L]iterature, like psychoanalysis,