Homegoing exemplifies how the history of institutionalized racism scripts Black American lives like a preordained fate similar, but also crucially […]
Forgive Your Mother? Memory, Redemption, and the Sense of an Ending Read Post »
In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois commissioned the artist Meta Fuller to produce a sculpture in celebration of the 50th anniversary
“The Gnarled Fingers of Fate”: Curse Temporalities and the Question of Agency Read Post »
Homegoing is not primarily invested in aptly conveying the horrors of chattel slavery. Instead, the novel aims to capture a
“An Accumulation of Time”: Writing Time as History Read Post »
As Dalley states in his study of the postcolonial historical novel, “just as contests over the meaning of history forced
The Other Problem of History: What Cannot Be Represented
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Listing Yaa Gyasi, Yvonne Owuor, Colson Whitehead, Chimamanda Adichie, and Peter Kimani as examples, historian Dan Magaziner notes in an
Historical Fiction Is “Having a Moment” Read Post »
“History clings to our skin. Somehow we must remember that we remember differently.”Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi”One must return to the site.
A Painful Notion of Time Conveying Black Temporality in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Read Post »
Americanah is a diasporic novel that explicitly negotiates different Black epistemologies. While acceding to the constitutive force of an afterlife
This Shared Space of Africanness”: The Hair Salon as Afropolitan Heterotopia Read Post »
“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with AfricaAdichie herself has called Americanah an “unapologetic” love story, and it is
“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with Africa Read Post »
As Adichie remarked in an interview about the novel: “I am more or less expected, or maybe permitted, to
“An American Pathology”: Reading Americanah as Quest Romance Read Post »
Americanah is part of a discourse that diversifies notions of Blackness in the diaspora. This is what Goyal asserts when
“A Bitter Americanizing”: Gendered Violence in the Aftermath of Slavery Read Post »
