Homegoing is the story of two sisters, Effia and Esi, who were born in two different villages without knowing of each other. The novel highlights the transgression of slavery and bondage through a lineage of people. Homegoing gives an outlook on the horrid treatment Africans and African Americans suffered. Hoemgoing provides an account of narratives from those captured, enslaved, and oppressed that may be forgotten but reappears through a work of fiction (Charles). Throughout the course of the novel, the author highlights the intergenerational disparities in African and African American people.
Foremost, the audience is met with the concept of colonization which is later met with slavery. The author presents the idea that the British, whom is colonizing a majority of Africa land, could have something to offer to the native civilizations. Throughout Effia’s life she is told that she is cursed and born of fire. “The villagers began to say …show more content…
Akua, Yaw’s mother, informs him of her dreams. Akua has dreams that began to appear during the war between the Asante and the British. “Akua couldn’t remember the first time she’d seen fure, she could remember the first time she’d dreamed of it. It was in 1895, sixteen years after he mother, Abena, had carried her Akua-wollen belly to the missionaries in Kumasi. (Gyasi 177). In a similar sense to Effia’s account, Akua is informed by a man that she carries evil in her ancestry. Most importantly, readers must note that the evil that she is told that she possesses does not belong to her. Essentially, Akua’s dreams represent the trauma and invading thoughts that Africans and African American endure and experience through an intergenerational experience of trauma. Africans and African Americans trauma originate from the colonization on native African land, through slavery, into the civil rights era, up until modern
Foremost, the audience is met with the concept of colonization which is later met with slavery. The author presents the idea that the British, whom is colonizing a majority of Africa land, could have something to offer to the native civilizations. Throughout Effia’s life she is told that she is cursed and born of fire. “The villagers began to say …show more content…
Akua, Yaw’s mother, informs him of her dreams. Akua has dreams that began to appear during the war between the Asante and the British. “Akua couldn’t remember the first time she’d seen fure, she could remember the first time she’d dreamed of it. It was in 1895, sixteen years after he mother, Abena, had carried her Akua-wollen belly to the missionaries in Kumasi. (Gyasi 177). In a similar sense to Effia’s account, Akua is informed by a man that she carries evil in her ancestry. Most importantly, readers must note that the evil that she is told that she possesses does not belong to her. Essentially, Akua’s dreams represent the trauma and invading thoughts that Africans and African American endure and experience through an intergenerational experience of trauma. Africans and African Americans trauma originate from the colonization on native African land, through slavery, into the civil rights era, up until modern