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T1 Home away from Home: Imageability and Way finding in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck
A1 Stefanova, Svetlana
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB This essay explores the process of orientation in migratory space in three of the twelve stories that make up Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s collection The Thing around Your Neck— “Imitation,” “On Monday of Last Week,” and “The Thing around Your Neck”—from the perspective of Kevin Lynch’s theory of wayfinding, developed in his work on urban spaces The Image of the City. The analysis of how gender and class affect the female protagonists’ conceptualization of home is based on Lynch’s notion of imageability. The metaphorical extension of the concepts of imageability and wayfinding aims to grasp migrants’ psychological and emotional experiences of orientation. Taking as a point of reference three highly imageable objects—masks, mirrors, and letters—the study of the protagonists’ wayfinding in America reveals the tension between reality and imagination in the creation of mental images of home. In her recognition of the potential of female agency, Adichie draws a parallel between the protagonists’ reorientation in the exilic space and their reorientation in their intimate relationships.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64160
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64160
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No. 44 (2023) pags. 11-34
DS UVaDOC
RD 12-jul-2024