Tag: English
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Contemporary fiction: “Girl, Woman, Other” by Bernardine Evaristo
I have always found it somehow difficult to entirely enjoy a novel with too many main characters -say, for instance, over ten- as many focuses and centres, if not more, and enough secondary characters to cram the streets of a whole town centre. As I was going through the first half of Girl, Woman, Other […]
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Is racism striking back again?
This is something I thought I would share. Any reference to real facts or persons is not purely coincidental. The recent episodes have been pushing it under the spotlight but, in all fairness, it doesn’t seem that racism is spreading out “again” just like a contagious virus. It’s always been there and it has never […]
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Reading Chinua Achebe’s novels from a linguistics perspective
Foreword I am a reader. Being a reader, especially an avid and a passionate one, influences your life experience and your approach to things in general. I have created this blog primarily to collect personal reflections, thoughts and notes on my readings. From my point of view, a blog is a resourceful platform which may be used to open up a dialogue […]
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Storie, identità, voci e colori per Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: non siamo tutti uguali
«If you followed the media you’d think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that’s not the case; so it’s important to engage with the other Africa.» «Da quello che dicono i media si è indotti a pensare che tutti gli africani stiano morendo di fame, tuttavia non è così; è importante confrontarsi anche […]
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E se tornassi a casa e trovassi più nulla? Un libro di memorie di Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: adolescenza e prigionia
Tutti noi, alcuni più di altri, compiamo nella vita una serie di viaggi e di spostamenti, più o meno lunghi, per motivi e fini diversi, per scelte volontarie o per cause di forza maggiore. Esistono tanti tipi viaggi, innumerevoli stati d’animo e altrettante sensazioni che si accompagnano ad essi; in realtà, a volte non c’è neppure […]
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