From Physical Assault to Emotional Agony: Migration as Social Protest in No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names.

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dc.contributor.authorAbdullahi, K. A.
dc.contributor.authorBoyinbogun, Erasmus Dare
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-06T14:20:37Z
dc.date.available2022-12-06T14:20:37Z
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on migration as a social protest in Bulawayo’s We Need New Names with a view to studying the dialectics of agony at home and in exile. The specific objectives are to analyse how Bulawayo captures the uneasiness that torment the characters at home and even on arrival in exile. It also illuminates how the character’s reinvention of self in a new place confronts the protective memories of the way things were back home. The essay studies the thematic transcendence that takes the story beyond its gratuitous dark concerns to other levels of meaning. It x-rays the melancholic, funny, ferocious, joyful and defiant characterization in Bulawayo’s first person narrator in her trenchant observation of human behaviour. To achieve these objectives, the essay deploys the postcolonial theory to account for several issues raised by the novelist. The study concludes that many African Diasporas are not necessarily better in exile as mostly earlier anticipated. The finding of the study shows clearly that voluntary migration is mostly necessitated by the growing emotional trauma that most African government unleashes on her citizenry and thus making exile the painful option.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0795-2309
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/8007
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin, Ilorinen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectDiasporaen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectTravailen_US
dc.subjectEmotionen_US
dc.titleFrom Physical Assault to Emotional Agony: Migration as Social Protest in No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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