A Vagabond on the Road: The Pressure of Genre in Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy.
This article argues that Bakhtin’s notion of the chronotope offers an insightful conceptual tool to read Nadifa Mohamed’s debut novelBlack Mamba Boyand particularly its depiction of time-space in relation to the representation of her protagonist, who functions in the text as an exceptional adventure...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 176 - 189 |
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