Pandemia e o perigo da narrativa única - pensamento filosófico, teoria cultural e literatura-mundo em Chimamanda N. Adichie

This study relies upon a theoretical framework that is part of the new perspectives fostered by Cultural, Post-colonial, Decolonial, Global, Transnational and Area Studies, which have allowed for the creation and expansion of new paradigms and trends in Comparative Studies and, in particular, in World- Literature. The analysis of The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda N. Adichie, more specifically of the short stories “The Thing Around Your Neck” and “A Private Experience”, is in line with the theoretical works of Boaventura Sousa Santos, The Cruel Pedagogy of the Virus (April 2020), and Slavoj Žižek’s, Pandemic: Covid-19 Shakes the World (May 2020), seeking to ascertain the themes that permeate Adichie's writing and how they intersect with the problems dealt with by the aforementioned theorists. These are concerns that have been drawing the attention of the public, of international politics and of the academic community since the first decades of the 21st century. Among the different types of pandemic that have pended upon humanity, we highlight the danger of the single narrative, mainly Eurocentric and Westernized, among other spaces, which are called into question by decolonial theories, placing the focus on southern epistemologies