Deciphering Silences, Interpreting (In) visibility, and Explicating Spatio-temporal Manipulation in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah.
In Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, silence is rendered sufficiently palpable to be differentiated. Kambili is keenly aware of "a different kind of silence, one that lets [her] breathe"; then there is "the other kind" associated with "things" she "cannot name." The author links silence of a m...
| Publicado en: | English in Africa Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 25 - 48 |
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