The Dead are Too Loud
Year: 2024
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The Dead are Too Loud is a collection of short stories that explore the lives of immigrants, dreamers, and the displaced. It examines themes of race, identity, and what it means to be from somewhere. The majority of the characters either live in America or Zimbabwe and they all struggle with understanding who they are against America’s political backdrop. In 'God Resides inside a Warumart', a Zimbabwean woman reflects on her assimilation struggle when she bumps into a newly immigrated grandmother in Walmart. In 'Roora', a Zimbabwean woman brings her white fiancé home; culture and generation clash at the dinner table when she announces she will not be having her traditional wedding. In 'The Grace Period', an immigrant living in an imagined America sells her native language to a white man in exchange for citizenship.
DOI: 10.7275/54893
Author: Charleen Rutendo Chidzodzo
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6959112406
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