Katherine Hayles has described as a narrative that promotes “nonlinear, or more accurately, multilinear reading paths.” Hayles believes that it is usually electronic fiction that allows for such transformations within narratives but I argue that Homegoing's self-fashioning as an infinite network rather than a traditional print text illustrates that narrative transformation can also be observed in a print text that has been birthed in a contemporary media ecology. Reading this novel can be much like scrolling through a hypertext, a genre that N. Homegoing is constructed as a set of linked stories about characters who are dispersed across the world, and unaware of their blood lineages because of the rupture caused by the slave trade. My article argues that even though the novels, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, are print texts, they construct their narratives through a reliance on digital modes such as hypertext, networked identities and elliptical sentence structures.
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