The Danger of a Single Chronotope: New African Diaspora and Blogging Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah.

In The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy popularized the ship as a salient chronotope for examining the Black diasporic transnational alliances across the Middle Passage because ships sailing across the Atlantic metonymically represented Pan-Africanism and transcultural relations in the writings of intell...

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Publicado en:Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 276 - 298
Autor principal: Sahni, Anmol
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Florida, Board of Trustees Fall2024
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