IMMIGRATION AND IDENTITY IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK
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2018-06
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Immigration and Identity are among the most formative experiences of our century.
They are considered to be the chief preoccupation of most contemporary African
writers. The present study scrutinizes immigration and identity in Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck (2009). In her short stories, Adichie depicts
the postcolonial identity struggle of Nigerian Immigrants in the heart of America.
Hence, the study attempts to highlight these immigrants strife for identity and
selfhood. It analyses Adichie’s work in the light of Bhabha’s postcolonial theory of
hybridity. Thus, chapter one presents a theoretical framework and a socio-historical
context of the work. The second chapter examines the theme of identity in Adichie’s
selected short stories namely, “Imitation”, “The thing around your neck”, “The
American Embassy”, “The Shivering”, and “The Arrangers of Marriage”. To
conclude, postcolonialism has a deep influence on The Thing Around Your Neck,
since the collection contains multiple postcolonial themes which assert that it is a
display for the intervention of the imposed superiority that both the colonizer and
United States of America exercise on the African individual self
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Key words: postcolonialism, postcolonial literature, mimicry, hybridity, cultural displacement, the thing around your neck, immigration, identity