AGONIZING TRAVEL SUAVENESS IN NOO SARO-WIWA’S LOOKING FOR TRANSWONDERLAND: TRAVELS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The research seeks the diffident vision towards innovativeness in the modern-day society through the study of Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (2012). Travel to Nigeria recompences the author’s understanding of Nigeria. It aids the author to overcome her inner traumatic experiences. The paper scrutinizes Saro-Wiwa’s diverse vantage point in the travelogue such as the colonial parodies which she has experienced after her father’s death, the fears and unhappiness about her own native place and also her travel to each region of the country towards the encounter of the thread that binds them all composed. The bangs of binary separation like class and colour would be connected to Saro-Wiwa’s disowning of modernity, and the desire to preserve Nigeria’s ethnicities. The clue taken to the goals best part up on what possibilities the feeling towards the preservation of social bequest over innovation or transformation which can be associated with the diasporic necessity to have an imaginary or made-up homeland on behalf of a nurturing bequest cause. The paper brings out the thematic notion of trauma in the edifice of the narration which evidently sets out to resolve the ancient traumas.