Do ocaso histórico à aurora narrativa: mobilidade e construção identitária no romance Meio Sol Amarelo de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Abstract

The world of globalization, marked by the swiftness of exchanges and flows, has been producing a sense of disorientation as well as the rise of new social actors and different ways of being. Based upon a dynamic conception of culture and adopting an interdisciplinary approach with contributions from areas such as Cultural Studies (Eagleton, Hall); post-colonial literature (Bhabha, Said); identity studies (Castells, Bauman), mobility (Cresswell, Urry) and diaspora (Kenny, Al Deek), this work investigates the recurrence of a pattern of displacement and identity building perceived in the work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It defends the thesis that the protagonists of the Nigerian writer follow a path that begins with 1) distancing from the nuclear family to other point of the extended family, goes through 2) experiences within a larger group and leads up to 3) (re)integration into the national community. The analysis, focused on the novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), confirmed that the identified pattern recurs in the literary output of the author from early works like For Love of Biafra (1998) till recent ones like the short story “Zikora” (2020).