"WE NEED NEW NAMES" BY NOVIOLET BULAWAYO. PARADIGMS OF MIGRATION: THE FLIGHT AND THE FALL
This essay analyses paradigms of migration in We Need New Names (2013) by NoViolet Bulawayo (b. 1981, Zimbabwe), a recent example of new African (or ‘Afropolitan’?) literature. A teenager idealises migration to the United States as a flight to emancipation, if compared to internal flows of forcedly...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Udine
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Le Simplegadi |
| Online Access: | https://le-simplegadi.it/article/view/994 |