Essays on Americanah

An Exodus to Personal Identity: Exploring America’s Identity Subjugation in Americanah How does one define his or her own identity? In Chimamanda Adichie’s novel Americanah, Adichie writes the story of Ifemelu, a Nigerian young woman, who moves to America in search of a brighter future...

When examining the collision of cultures within Americanah, it is important to take into consideration that race and culture are not the only factors that play into social interaction. As readers compare the experiences that Ifemelu and Obinze, in America and the U.K. It is...

Four braids wrap around the cover of Americanah, binding the stories and experiences of race within. Stories of realising one’s own race and how it changes your mobility in different places. Stories of understanding power. In Americanah, Adichie uses hair as a metaphor for race...

With every story there is a plot and within that plot characters whom we can relate and identify with. In Chimanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, the main characters are a female, Ifemelu, and a male, Obinze, who are both from Nigeria. Throughout the novel we follow...

According to Google, discrimination is, “The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.” Treating other people badly for not having characteristics similar to you. We were outcasted do to our skin colour....

The New Boy and his Mother The great Abraham Lincoln once said “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” This is an...

Ethnocentrism is defined as the judging of another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture. Although Ethnocentrism is spoken about in a negative manner, there are few cases where ethnocentrism acs in a positive manner. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author, of...

Post Reconstruction, America plummeted into an era of social movements for freedom and liberty for different groups. As the common-white man was looked upon as the ideal member of society, there were many people such as blacks, women and gays that did not apply to...

Prejudice or alienation is almost always a theme, whether a prominent one or a minor one, within a work of literature. Art is about the human condition, and the human condition only significant because of struggle; a blessed life does not make a story. The...

As much as the public is informed of the efforts to combat racism in today’s world, Gene Luen Yang proves in his graphic novel American Born Chinese that racism exists at considerable strength today. Through three intertwining stories, Yang demonstrates the ostracization and fear alien...

Most literary critics look on the racism of the blacks as a whole but in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tries through AMERICANNAH to explain the actuality of racism by trying to explain the differences of an African American and American African. Through Ifemelu, the protagonist of...

Introduction It is a common phenomenon in all countries around the world for a person to be quickly identified as not part of or different from their community, society, or their. They would be immediately labeled as an “outcast” creating a dangerous image in their...