91 KB31 KB198220252013Maver, Igorštevilka:1/2letnik:46str. 3-11, 117ISSN:0567-784XCOBISSID:53229154URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-UZXLVOGSenZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakulteteActa neophilologica"Open city"9/11American literatureameriška književnostCole, Teju, 1975-diasporaidentitetaidentityliterarne študijeNigerian literaturenigerijska književnostTeju Cole's Nigeria and the open cities of New York and Brussels|The novel Open City (2011) by the Nigerian-born and raised author Teju Cole isset in New York City, where he has lived since 1992. The narrator and protagonist of the book, the young Nigerian doctor Julius in is a veritable flâneur in the Big Apple, who is observing the rapidly changing multiethnic character of the city and meditating on (his) history and culture, identity and solitude, and the world beyond the United States, with which it is interconnected through the global history of violence and pain. He is juxtaposing the past and the present, the seemingly borderless open city of New York, Nigeria, and the various European locales, particularly Brussels.Thenovel, although set in the United States, is constantly interspersed with his recollections of his past experiences conditioned by hiscomplex hybrid Nigerian-European-American identityRoman Open City (2011) pisatelja Teju Cola, ki je bil rojen in je odrasel v Nigeriji, je postavljen v New York City, kjer živi od leta 1992. Pripovedovalec in protagonist knjige, mladi nigerijski zdravnik Julius je pravcati flâneur v Velikem jabolku. Opazuje hitro spreminjajoči se multietnični značaj mesta in meditira o (svoji) zgodovini, kulturi, identiteti in samoti ter o svetu izven Združenih držav, s katerim je mesto povezano preko globalne zgodovine nasilja in bolečine. Vseskozi sopostavlja preteklost in sedanjost, navidezno brezmejno odprto mesto New York, Nigerijo in različne evropske lokalitete, posebej Bruselj. Roman je, čeprav se odvija v Združenih državah, konstantno prepleten s protagonistovimi spomini na pretekle izkušnje, ki so pogojene z njegovo kompleksno hibridno nigerijsko-evropsko-ameriško identitetoTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta