From Africa to AmericaPrecarious Belongings in NoViolet Bulawayo’s "We Need New Names"

  1. M. Rocío Cobo-Piñero 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Sevilla
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    Universidad de Sevilla

    Sevilla, España

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Revista:
Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

ISSN: 0210-6124

Año de publicación: 2018

Volumen: 40

Número: 2

Páginas: 11-25

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.01 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

Resumen

Este artículo analiza la aclamada primera novela de NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (2013), subrayando los legados de la colonización y la diáspora hacia países occidentales. De igual forma que otras escritoras afrodiaspóricas contemporáneas, tales como Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi y Imbolo Mbue, la novela de Bulawayo reconstruye el complejo espacio que habitan las personas migrantes y transnacionales, vinculadas a un hogar poscolonial y a otro metropolitano, en los que se les niegan derechos fundamentales. Las subjetividades que emergen en contextos poscoloniales se caracterizan por sus filiaciones inestables, además de la frecuente invisibilidad social, política y económica. En la obra de Bulawayo, las peripecias de un grupo de niños y niñas africanas revelan los conflictos sociales, el abuso gubernamental, la imposición lingüística, el desplazamiento y la migración, primero en un barrio marginal de Zimbabue y después en Estados Unidos. El presente estudio contextualiza los dilemas de identidad y pertenencia en la diáspora, además de explorar las posibilidades de agencia política en la literatura afrodiaspórica.

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1 The research for this article was carried out under a funding of the V Plan Propio de Investigación from the University of Seville (VPPI-US postdoctoral contract).

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