Banca de DEFESA: Dayse Rayane e Silva Muniz

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Dayse Rayane e Silva Muniz
DATE: 15/02/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Teams
TITLE:

Literature and Resistance in Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Black, Feminine and Emancipatory Writing

KEY WORDS:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Cultural decolonization project; Post-colonialism; African Diaspora; Feminisms; Resistance.

PAGES: 172
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This thesis aims to analyze the novel Americanah (2014), by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in the light of postcolonial, afro diasporic and feminists theories. It seeks to highlight the relevance of Black, feminine and diasporic representations created by the writer's voice, emphasizing the syntax of resistance which is part of Adichie's poetics. In this approach, issues related to race, gender, identity and mobility are centralized, focusing on cultural, linguistic and emotional conflicts faced by Ifemelu, the lead character of the novel, when moving in new spaces, no matter if physical or virtual. The five chapters develop, in this order, notions about the post-colonial thinking associated with a literary tradition out of the colonial perspective, the African Diaspora, the cultural decolonization project in Adichie's poetics and the plural feminists theories aligned to a Black, feminine point of view, the places of enunciation in Americanah and the evidence of a post-colonial, feminist resistance in the novel. The conclusion, where we discuss the path of hope traced by Black women through the written word, the projection in which Adichie is highlighted, comes from analysis detached from the colonial and Westcentric logic we aimed to prioritize through the whole paper

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