Um mundo narrado entre o local e o global: biografia, guerra e memória na ficção de Chimamanda Adichie

Abstract

ABSTRACT:

We propose in this paper to discuss possibilities of reading and understanding the worlds as narrated through fictional graphies from Chimamanda Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah. Starting from the idea of “a storied world” by Tim Ingold, we perceive writing as a graphy with certain closeness towards others as, for example, a sewing and embroidery. Within needles or writing, a textuality is formed. A “storied world” is made by sewing a fabric of countless vital lines, individuals and things not only exist as happen and are identified by their own ways (trajectory, histories) from whence they came and where they are heading to. As geographical, social and cultural origins imply. Those are unique itineraries, however, made possible thanks to a mesh of broader connections. If graphy comes from gráphein, which means writing, what kind of writing could track life itself? Writing does not restrict to written text. At last, which writings inscribe orality and experiences?