RT Journal Article
T1 “Even the apocalypse isn’t the end”: Emotional Numbness and the Reconstruction of Interpersonal Bonding in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black
A1 Villamarín Freire, Sara
K1 Waste
K1 Storyworld
K1 Emotions
K1 Wasted lives
K1 Waste-time
K1 Adjei-Brenyah
AB This essay examines the role of waste as a categorizing mechanism in the formation of storyworlds in two of the short stories featured in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black (2018), “The Era” and “Through the Flash.” These two stories “waste” is a category defined according to the internal rules that govern their respective storyworlds, and in this case it arguably takes inspiration from preexisting classifications that have shaped, and continue to shape, the Black experience in the US under (late) capitalism. Analyzing how the relation between emotions, interpersonal bonding, and waste is constructed in each story, the essay demonstrates that understanding the power of waste as a classifying device helps shed light on mechanisms of oppression, which could contribute to dismantling the resulting classifications as well.
PB Paradigm Publishing
SN 1217-0283
YR 2023
FD 2023-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45283
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45283
LA eng
NO Villamarín-Freire, S. (2023). “Even the apocalypse isn’t the end”: Emotional Numbness and the Reconstruction of Interpersonal Bonding in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 29(1), 58-77. https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/1/4
NO I would like to acknowledge the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the National Research Agency (ref. PID2019-106798GB- I00/AEI/10. 13039/5011033)
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026