This paper demonstrates that two novels of European and African origins, Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) Emezi’s Freshwater (2018) share a common discursive formative. Nomadism, it is argued, constitutes the consciousness behind textual formation stories, this informs trajectory border crossing observable in terms narration, characterization incidents. The subjects stories mostly refuse fixed norma...

Abstract In the second volume of Time and Narrative (1985, 101–12), Paul Ricoeur distinguishes between two layers temporality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925): he calls them “monumental” time “mortal” time. The former is connected with authority British imperial politics; latter subjective, highly malleable human experience. But there another time, also active novel her oeuvre more gene...