Crosby’s Nwantinti:

Intimacy Under the Negotiation of Cultural Identities

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210609.002How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Intimacy, Nwantinti, Cultural identity

Abstract

The American modern history does great help in getting Igbo culture involved. As an Igbo descent, Njideka Akunyili Crosby explores different cultural identifications which define her both as a Nigerian and a modern artist. Her work Nwantinti is one of the most representative works of her efforts to negotiate the cultural terrain between her modern and native identities. This study depicts basic elements of Nwantinti with both the internal logic and a Lacanianism approach. It is argued that Nwantinti signifies a highly intensified feeling of intimacy. The collective memory that portraits her childhood plays the role of background, while spatial imagination of sociality serves the constructional one.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jingyi Li
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - Crosby’s Nwantinti:
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 6
EP  - 11
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210609.002
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210609.002
ID  - Li2021
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