Del exilio a la estetización del desarraigo: Un análisis comparativo de Americanah y Ghana must go

Writers living and writing about rootlessness have been developing a distinctive trend within the traditional literature of exile, in which the nostalgic perspective of being unable to return home is replaced by one that calls «home» anywhere in the world. Two novels that address this issue in detai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Vergilio Leite, Lucimeire
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/685810
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/685810
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Estetización del desarraigo
Exilio
Identidad
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Taiye Selasi
Literatura
Descripción
Sumario:Writers living and writing about rootlessness have been developing a distinctive trend within the traditional literature of exile, in which the nostalgic perspective of being unable to return home is replaced by one that calls «home» anywhere in the world. Two novels that address this issue in detail are Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, and Ghana Must Go, by Taiye Selasi. This article sets out to analyse to what extent the perception of this new backdrop of homelessness differs from traditional exile, as well as how a new aesthetization of displacement or rootlessness poses questions to the narrative and to the identity of the characters in the novels. The theory developed by several authors in the realm of cultural studies has guided the comparison with a view to achieving the proposed objective