LiteraryCriticism

Romantic Encounters and Emotional Intimacy: Analyzing the Best Moments in Modern Contemporary Fiction

“I HAVE **BAD NEWS** and bad news,” Shadi texted me the next morning, triggering a wave of **anxiety** and curiosity.‎‎“Which should I hear first???” I replied. I sat up slowly, careful not to rouse Gus. To say we’d fallen asleep on the couch felt like a misrepresentation of the truth; in reality, I’d had to […]

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“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with Africa

“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with Africa‎‎Adichie herself has called Americanah an “unapologetic” love story, and it is indeed remarkable how extensively it adheres to and inverts the narrative strategies of romantic genre fiction (Sehgal 2013: para. 15). To offer some anecdotal insight, I once overheard two women in a café discussing the

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