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In NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names, the child narrator, Darling, is forced to flee her native Zimbabwe amid political turmoil, and finds herself now growing up and searching for identity in Detroit Michigan, USA. Despite her repeated attempts to "Americanise" and fit in, Darling finds herself in a state of perpetually ambiguous identity: no longer Zimbabwean, and never quite American, she finds her .  · For Darling, the narrator of NoViolet Bulawayo’s striking first novel, “We Need New Names,” the answer is almost nothing — except they’re places she has lived. Darling’s corner of Author: Uzodinma Iweala.  · The Story: We Need New Names is the debut novel of expatriate Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. A coming-of-age story, it tells of the life of a young girl named Darling, first as a ten-year-old in Zimbabwe, and later as a teenager in the Midwest United States/5(K).


Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby o. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo is a remarkable and poignant debut for the Zimbabwean writer; written entirely without quotation marks, it repeatedly and harshly reminds the reader of the voice of Darling, the 10 year old protagonist, as she views atrocities and complexities of life both in Africa and the USA. An extension of her winning short story 'Hitting Budapest', which won the. We will write a custom Essay on "We Need New Names" by NoViolet Bulawayo Literature Analysis specifically for you for only $ $11/page. certified writers online.


The Story: We Need New Names is the debut novel of expatriate Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. A coming-of-age story, it tells of the life of a young girl named Darling, first as a ten-year-old in Zimbabwe, and later as a teenager in the Midwest United States. What do Detroit, Mich., and a town in Zimbabwe called Paradise have in common? For Darling, the narrator of NoViolet Bulawayo’s striking first novel, “We Need New Names,” the answer is. We Need New Names is a work of fiction by Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo. It’s her debut novel, which garnered critical praise upon its publication in Bulawayo’s narrative centers around year-old Darling and her group of friends, in a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise, as the group perceptively observes life around them.

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