NARRATIVE FORM AND PALIMPSESTIC MEMORY IN NAMWALI SERPELL’S THE OLD DRIFT
This essay explores Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift (2019) through the lens of ‘palimpsestic memory’, contending that the novel articulates an interconnectedness between memory and migration. Firstly, I will investigate how the tension between aeonic temporality and some paratextual elem...
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University of Udine
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Le Simplegadi |
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| Online Access: | https://le-simplegadi.it/article/view/1128 |