Representations of Identity and Resistance in Americanah of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Main Author: Cleonice Alves Lopes-Flois
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná 2018-02-01
• Series: Travessias
• Subjects: identidade; resistência; processo migratório; subalternidade; diferença.
• Online Access: http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/17986

In this text, the work Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is analyzed observing how the migratory process of the characters Ifemelu and Obinze occurs; as well as the ways the questionings and subversions of the hegemonic discourses take place in the context of identities change. These analyzes aim to contribute to eradicate the dangers of the single history, term used by Adichie, allowing the reader to face confrontations capable of producing identity and cultural displacements through the most critical reading of the literary text. The theoretical choices that the analyzes are based are made to deconstruct the ideas of subalternity in the Nigerian literature and experienced, in great part, in the countries which the personages lived: England and the United States. Due to the years of oppression by Eurocentric discourse, it will have different forms of resistance acting in the analyzed works, considering hoe the locus of each character presents the exclusion experienced as foreign, illegal, black, expatriate, and immigrant in the process of (re)construction of their identities.