Negotiating Worlds in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
摘要
This chapter analyses Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The chapter explores how the text’s world-making potentialities are actualised through processes of re-worlding and unworlding by focusing, firstly, on the role played by colonial education and mass media representation in the process of unworlding, as well as their influence in creating an idealised version of the Western world; secondly, the chapter investigates the representations of gendered and racialised socio-political structures of Western countries, which is elaborated in the novel within the protagonist’s blog; the third section of the chapter analyses the process of re-worlding born out of the main character’s acceptance of her Nigerian roots and her assimilated American culture.