Blogging Race, Blogging Nation: Digital Diaspora as Home in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

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Maia L. Butler
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Abstract:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, representing Ifemelu’s blogging in Americanah (2014), shows Black immigrant communities revising public discourse on intersections of race, culture, and nationality, effectively expanding conceptions of Blackness in America. Ifemelu’s blogs, Raceteenth, or Various Observations about American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black and The Small Redemptions of Lagos are a dialogic digital literature functioning as a diasporic, communal textual space. This article focuses on Ifemelu’s blogging activity, both in the United States and upon her return to Nigeria, and explores how she creates and sustains a digital, dialogic construction of home space where “non-American Blacks” and “Nigerpolitans” can reorder their lives after transnational displacement. Americanah, a novel of migration, shows that diaspora is where constructions of identity and home are provisional and continuously constructed and Adichie represents Ifemelu’s blogs as diasporic spaces where Black migratory subjects (re)constitute identity and home. The blog platform is particularly well suited for the cultural work of the geographically dispersed diasporic community. Further, Black immigrants in dialogue with Ifemelu consider a consciousness of their racialized immigrant identities to be a prerequisite for negotiating their belonging in the United States. Ifemelu’s identity as a migratory subject and her ambivalence about her belonging in both the United States and Nigeria complicate a reading of her return to Lagos as a homegoing; her creation of a new blog, the revival of her digital diaspora, reveals her need to explore her continuously shifting identity and its relationship to the provisional nature of home.
部落格竞赛、部落格国家:数位散居者在中国的家
摘要:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie以Ifemelu在美国的博客(2014)为代表,展示了黑人移民社区对种族、文化和国籍交叉点的公共话语的修正,有效地扩展了美国黑人的概念。Ifemelu的博客《非美国黑人对美国黑人(以前称为黑人)的各种观察》和《拉各斯的小救赎》是一种对话式的数字文学,其功能是散居的、公共的文本空间。本文聚焦于Ifemelu在美国及回到奈及利亚后的部落格活动,探讨她如何创造并维持一个数位化、对话式的家庭空间,让“非美国黑人”与“奈及利亚人”在跨国流离失所后,可以重新安排生活。《美国人》是一部关于移民的小说,它表明,在散居的地方,身份和家园的建构是暂时的,并且是不断构建的,而阿迪奇则把Ifemelu的博客描绘成散居的空间,在这里,黑人移民主体(重新)建构了身份和家园。博客平台特别适合地理上分散的侨民社区的文化工作。此外,与Ifemelu对话的黑人移民认为,意识到他们种族化的移民身份是谈判他们在美国归属的先决条件。伊菲梅卢作为一个迁徙主体的身份,以及她对自己既属于美国又属于尼日利亚的矛盾心理,使她回到拉各斯作为回家的解读变得复杂;她创建了一个新博客,复兴她的数字散居,揭示了她需要探索她不断变化的身份及其与家庭临时性质的关系。
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