Silence as an Interlocutor in the Diaspora: Olumide Popoola’s this is not about sadness
This article analyzes silences in the novella this is not about sadness. Using theories of community building by Fatima El-Tayeb, opacity from Édouard Glissant, and theories by Popoola herself, my work argues for the generative way silences function. Silence interweaves the text in community of wome...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Open Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0023 |