My Name Will Not Be Lost: Cosmopolitan Temporality and Reclaimed History in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Headstrong Historian”
by David Mikailu and Brendan Wattenberg Abstract This essay offers a consideration of cosmopolitan temporality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “The Headstrong Historian.” Spanning the late nineteenth century to the 1970s, Adichie presents three generations of cosmopolitans and three distinct iterations of cosmopolitanism. We argue that the cosmopolitan is a person privileged with a poly-visional […]