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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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/685810 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/685810 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Estetización del desarraigo Exilio Identidad Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie Taiye Selasi Literatura |
| Resumo: | 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 |
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