Gender and ethnicity in diaspora : the multi-cultural trauma in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah

Abstract EN

In the new millennium, African authors tend to modernize their creative writings and cast light on the new challenges that confront Africans with preserving the label of African culture and traditions.

the idea of gender and ethnicity in diaspora is one of the significant challenges that face African immigrants in the west.

it illustrates the multi-cultural conflicts between the dominant group (the white) and the other ethnic groups due to both gender and race.

for that reason, the present paper aims to analyze the different features of multicultural trauma in diaspora when gender and ethnicity are presented in African fiction in English.

to accomplish the work's aim, the two researchers selected Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americana as a corpus of the present study since this novel introduces an image of African black women's struggle in multi-ethnic community (USA) that is dominated by the white.

the novel's discourse depicts the multicultural trauma in diaspora as a result of the hierarchal social realty in which the white underestimate the black and males control females.