Strangers and Necropolitics in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names

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As a contribution to the recent call for study of figure stranger in African spaces (Ikhane, 2020), this article examines first half NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). The main reason this, it is argued, that description protagonist’s pre-migratory living conditions throughout part narrative reveals Zimbabwean nation which necropolitics resulting from failures decolonisation have turned certain segments population into strangers their own land. Their “living dead” status situation social and spatial marginalisation recalls, particular, notion as “socially (Rothe & Collins, 2016). However, unlike other classical Western urban context, literary studied here do not represent an othered minority community but, rather, exemplify what appears be widely shared condition “strangerness” some contemporary cities.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Selim: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1578-7044', '1989-6131']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.508761