OVER-LIVING(S): (RE)KNOWLEDGE(S) TRAJECTORIES IN THE DIASPORIC WRITING OF CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE, JULIA ALVAREZ AND CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO
Diaspora. Women of Color. Writing.
This dissertation is a comparative work and it aims at discussing the role of contemporary women writers who undergo cultural, political, social and economic displacements and, consequently, argue about them in their writing. For this, this work will consider the way in which Chimamanda Adichie (1977 – ), Julia Alvarez (1950 – ) and Conceição Evaristo (1946 –)’ novels deal with the transit their female subjects experience in order to comprehend the configuration of their diasporic identities. Also, this Ph.D. investigation takes place in order to provide a comparative study among a Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie, a Caribbean writer from the Hispanic Caribbean, Julia Alvarez, and a Brazilian writer, Conceição Evaristo. Thus, the purpose of this research is to originate a thorough dialogue among Adichie, Alvarez and Evaristo in order to investigate how the female subjects portrayed in their novels cope with their diasporic condition and reflect on concepts such as gender, race, ethnicity, and identity. In order to build a theoretical framework that supports this dissertation, we list the works of Audre Lorde (1979), Avtar Brah (1996), Chérrie Moraga (1983), Stuart Hall (2003), Glória Anzaldúa (1983), Jurema Werneck (2000), Patricia Collins (2003), Paul Gilroy (1993), Salman Rushdie (1990), Sueli Carneiro (2011) among other contributions that were crucial to the fulfillment of this academic research up to this stage.