Postcolonial theory

‎ A Painful Notion of Time Conveying Black Temporality in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

“History clings to our skin. Somehow we must remember that we remember differently.”‎‎Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi‎‎”One must return to the site. Detour is not a useful ploy unless it is nourished by return: not a return to the dream of origin […] but a return to the point of entanglement [point d’intrication], from which one was […]

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“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 write about African pathology, but I don’t think I am expected to write about American pathology” (Sehgal 2013: para. 21). At this point, it may be useful to distinguish what the novel’s turn toward realism

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