Staging Afropolitans' Selfhood in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Hussein Zaboon, Mutashar (2024) Staging Afropolitans' Selfhood in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. American Journal of Language, Literacy and Learning in STEM Education, 2 (8). pp. 69-84. ISSN 2993-2769

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Abstract

Among many emerging Afropolitan authors who write about and for Africa through sharing their own life experiences out of and in Africa is the distinctive novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who re-opens the debate around African immigrant identities in her award-winning novel "Americanah" (2013). Thus, the aim of this study is to trace the many components that lead to identity formation and the ways in which the Afropolitans fashion their selfhood as presented in Adichie's "Americanah." In this novel, Adichie challenges the Whites and forces dramatic debates on selfhood as well as on discomforting and unpalatable issues of racism and colonialism. Therefore, and based on postcolonial theory and Afropolitanism, the study displays a multifaceted vision of the protagonists’ experience by going full circle and by returning to their home country, as well as their transformation through such experience.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions:	Postgraduate > Master's of Islamic Education
Depositing User:	Journal Editor
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2024 06:55
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2024 06:55
URI:	http://eprints.umsida.ac.id/id/eprint/14190

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