The essay re-reads all of the stories in Shimmer Chinodya's collection Can We Talk and Other Stories as one entity-a collage-that establishes the framework of a bildungsroman. Here, the exploration of the bildungsroman is limited to the tracing of levels/stages of growth and is extended to the protagonist's adult life, against the traditional early years of life. From the opening story, of a three-year-old protagonist looking at the adult world through the stories of different protagonists who grapple with different stages of life, to the last story, of an embittered husband in a dysfunctional marriage, the collection strongly suggests a conscious arrangement conveying a sense of a coming of age, both individual and national. In essence, at the end of reading the collection, there is a strong indication that the different situations of the lives of the different protagonists of the eleven stories in the collection build up to yield a unified sense of growth.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
192-204
عنوان
Matatu
شماره جلد
48/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1875-7421
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اصطلاح موضوعی
African Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
bildungsroman
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Studies & World Literature
اصطلاح موضوعی
Criticism & Theory
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cultural History
اصطلاح موضوعی
decolonization
اصطلاح موضوعی
linked stories
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature and Cultural Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
race/class relations
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