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

Suárez-Rodríguez, Ángela

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

dc.contributor.author	Suárez-Rodríguez, Ángela
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-18T12:47:10Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-18T12:47:10Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	As a contribution to the recent call for the study of the figure of the stranger in African spaces (Ikhane, 2020), this article examines the first half of NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). The main reason for this, it is argued, is that the description of the protagonist’s pre-migratory living conditions throughout this part of the narrative reveals a Zimbabwean nation in which the necropolitics resulting from the failures of decolonisation have turned certain segments of the population into strangers in their own land. Their “living dead” status in a situation of social and spatial marginalisation recalls, in particular, the notion of the stranger as the “socially dead” (Rothe & Collins, 2016). However, unlike this and other classical strangers living in a Western urban context, the literary strangers studied here do not represent an othered minority in the community but, rather, exemplify what appears to be a widely shared condition of “strangerness” in some contemporary African cities.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	18	es
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of English Studies, Vol.22 (2), 2022	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.508761
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/127490
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Stranger	es
dc.subject	Socially dead	es
dc.subject	Necropolitics	es
dc.subject	Living dead	es
dc.subject	Postcolonial Zimbabwe	es
dc.subject	We need new names	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Strangers and Necropolitics in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names.	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es