Equal, but not the same: examining difference in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\'s The Thing Around Your Neck

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Bruno
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Diaspora; Diáspora; Diferença; Difference; Experience; Experiência; Identidade; Identity
• Link de acesso: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-08032023-124949/

The main goal of this dissertation is to start conversations - particularly about \'difference\', though not exclusively, since there is a series of themes that are called upon to introduce, articulate and illustrate the problematic of \"difference\" within the territory of identity discourse - such as postcolonialism, diaspora, feminism, and racism, among others. These themes are examined up close in order not only to reveal some of their interesting minutiae, which get often overlooked in the heat of public debates, but also to challenge normalised assumptions on how we perceive these themes and \'difference\' within them. I resort to the work of contemporary Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in order to articulate crucial points concerning difference and identity, as theorised by the Ugandan-British sociologist Avtar Brah, through the literary analysis of selected short stories from Adichie\'s collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009). My goal with this dissertation is to raise relevant issues and/or perspectives on identity, bringing into light new reflections on the role of difference when it comes to identitary discourse, as well as helping to establish the body of knowledge under the umbrella of theory of difference.