Weaving stories, weaving trajectories:

This paper focuses on Chimamanda Adichie's novel Americanah (2014) and discusses the diasporic consciousness developed in the narrative, using cultural and gender studies as a theoretical foundation to problematise the impact of contemporary displacement on subjects. We focus on the characters Ifemelu and Obinze, the protagonists of the movements described in the novel. Our attention is centred on the movement of Ifemelu, the novel's protagonist, whose construction of diasporic consciousness is based on the exercise of writing a blog that she creates and maintains while living in the USA to discuss issues of race and gender. Her writing and discoveries continue until she returns to her country of origin - Nigeria - and upon her return, she creates a new blog and reflects on her sense of foreignness in her own culture.

Autorentext

Eliza Araújo hat einen Master-Abschluss des Postgraduierten-Programms in Literatur an der Bundesuniversität von Paraíba mit Schwerpunkt auf afrikanischer englischsprachiger Literatur, Kultur- und Geschlechterstudien. Sie ist Doktorandin am PPGL/UFPB mit dem Schwerpunkt afro-brasilianische und afro-amerikanische Literatur von Frauen, mit einem Zwischenaufenthalt an der University of Massachusetts/Amherst.

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This paper focuses on Chimamanda Adichie's novel Americanah (2014) and discusses the diasporic consciousness developed in the narrative, using cultural and gender studies as a theoretical foundation to problematise the impact of contemporary displacement on subjects. We focus on the characters Ifemelu and Obinze, the protagonists of the movements described in the novel. Our attention is centred on the movement of Ifemelu, the novel's protagonist, whose construction of diasporic consciousness is based on the exercise of writing a blog that she creates and maintains while living in the USA to discuss issues of race and gender. Her writing and discoveries continue until she returns to her country of origin - Nigeria - and upon her return, she creates a new blog and reflects on her sense of foreignness in her own culture.