Writing “so raw and true”: Blogging in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
Abstract
Questo contributo indaga l’intreccio tra produzione letteraria e testualità multimediali nella scrittura postcoloniale attraverso l’analisi del recente romanzo di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah (2013). Qui la protagonista Ifemelu, trasferitasi da Lagos negli Stati Uniti, apre un blog che si occupa di questioni razziali dal punto di vista di una nera non statunitense. Partendo dalle argomentazioni proposte da Sandra Ponzanesi nel suo The Postcolonial Cultural Industry (2014), l’analisi del romanzo prende in considerazione il recente dibattito sul ruolo pubblico dello scrittore postcoloniale: il blog riflette il ruolo di Adichie nei media e situa il romanzo – non senza fratture – nel panorama globale dell’Afropolitanismo. I post del blog appaiono nel romanzo dall’inizio, e la sua scrittura interseca la fiction contaminandola con un ampio commento sociale. Con il suo intreccio di scrittura creativa e d’opinione, romanzo e blog, Americanah commenta sul ruolo pubblico dello scrittore e la sua presenza ‘virale’ nei media, offrendo un esempio pregnante sul cambiamento delle forme narrative nell’era dell’informazione.
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