O mundo estava calado quando nós morremos: aspectos identitários em Meio Sol Amarelo, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In 2009, at a conference about technology, entertainment and design, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie presented a speech in which she advocated the idea that people should be open to the multiple existing stories about the facts that impact our society, fleeing from the idea, actually from the danger of one story only. In this sense, we focus our attention on the fact that we generally believe that there is only one version of the facts about people who form a people. We are used to having only this conception and this is what the text from Meio Sol Amarelo (2006) attempts to undo in relation to the Nigerians or in relation to the peoples that are part of the Nigerian nation. In this article we intend to analyze the conceptions of identity present in the work, from the perspective of the events leading up the narrative. In order to do so, we support our analysis in the conceptions of identity based on Bauman (2004) and Hall (2006). This analytic context culminates in the perspective of the fragmented identities of the postmodern and contemporary world, and, on this contemporaneity, we take Agamben’s (2009) thinking as base. These conceptions lead, therefore, to the comprehension that it is necessary to undo the pre-established ideas about Africa and the countries that are part of Africa as a continent composed of diverse peoples, interests and customs, which cocomitantly lead us to undo other pre-constructed established in our Western society