AMERICAN DREAMS AND BLACK IDENTITY IN THE NEW AFRICAN DIASPORA. CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH AND YAA GYASI’S HOMEGOING
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2022-01-29
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The essay examines how the New African Diaspora challenges and expands the notion of black identity (a fluid, communal identity) through the heritage, histories, and the African immigrants’ “dreams of America” in the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Yaa Gyasi.
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Patrizi, C (2022). AMERICAN DREAMS AND BLACK IDENTITY IN THE NEW AFRICAN DIASPORA. CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH AND YAA GYASI’S HOMEGOING. Oltreoceano, 2022(19). pp. 121–129. 10.53154/Oltreoceano37 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/35690.
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Chiara Patrizi
Chiara Patrizi, PhD is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (LILEC) at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, in partnership with Duke University. Her project, “WOT – Wilderness of Time: Timescapes of Contemporary US Literature,” explores time as the dimension in which the wilderness experience of contemporary US fiction takes place.
Her research stands at the intersection of contemporary US literature, postmodernism, trauma studies, time/temporality and literature, and Black Studies. She has published essays on, among others, Don DeLillo, Octavia Butler, Jesmyn Ward, and Rivers Solomon. She is a member of the editorial board of the academic journals JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy and Oltreoceano.
Her first book project, Journeys into the Wilderness of Time: Trauma and Temporality in Kurt Vonnegut and Don DeLillo, is forthcoming for Bologna University Press (BUP) in September 2026.
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