A Spatio-Emotional Analysis of the Disgust Discourse in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Fiction: Adichie's Americanah and Bulawayo's We Need New Names

A Spatio-Emotional Analysis of the Disgust Discourse in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Fiction: Adichie's Americanah and Bulawayo's We Need New Names

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical comparative analysis of the disgust discourse in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013) so as to better understand the current politics of Afrodiasporic subjectivation. Built primarily on Sara...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ángela Suárez Rodríguez
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidad de Zaragoza 2019-11-01
Series:	Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
Subjects:	geographies of disgust abject condition Afrodiasporic subjectivity Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie NoViolet Bulawayo
Online Access:	https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/6295

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