Opis

• Tytuł:
  Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
• Twórca:
  Darroch, Fiona
• Współtwórca:
  University of Stirling;
  fiona.darroch@stir.ac.uk
• Opis:
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah provides provocative reflections on intertextuality and becoming by exploring the potentially transformative power of “blog-writing.” Through a combined reading of Mayra Rivera’s Poetics of the Flesh and Adichie’s Americanah, this article details intersections between the virtual and the material; writing in the (imagined “other-wordly”) blogosphere about the organic matter of hair. The narrator of the novel, Ifemelu, establishes a blog after she shares her story to decide to stop using relaxants and to allow her hair to be natural, via an online chat-room; she refuses to go through ritual performances in order to succeed as a migrant in America. In this article I argue that Adichie’s detailing of Ifemelu’s relationship with her hair explores the way in which creative practice, or poetics, is intimately connected to the journey of our flesh; social history is marked on our bodies. The blog becomes a confessional which details the demeaning effect that social constructions of race have had on her body. But the blog ultimately becomes self-destructive. It is only when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria that she embodies the transformative and cathartic power of contemporary modes of story-telling, and where she is finally able to “spin herself into being.”
• Dostępność obiektu:
  Dostęp otwarty
• Prawa: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Data:
  2021.08.23;
  2020.11.24
• Typ:
  Article
• Język:
  angielski
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Wydawca:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relacja:
  Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;10
• Temat i słowa kluczowe:
  Adichie;
  theopoetics;
  materiality;
  hair;
  blog-writing
• Identyfikator:
  2083-2931;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38738 ;
  2084-574X;
  10.18778/2083-2931.10.08
• Dostawca danych:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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