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“To Be from the Country of People Who Gave”: National Allegory and the United States of Adichie’s Americanah
- Author(s):
- Katherine Hallemeier (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LLC African since 1990
- Subject(s):
- English literature, English-speaking countries, African literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Global anglophone literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M65T3G01C
- Abstract:
- Current debates about Afropolitan literature alternately value it for challenging western stereotypes about Africa and critique it for embracing western capitalism. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) complicates these debates by articulating a Nigerian dream that, while imbued with the class mobility of its American counterpart, delinks the dollar from intimately experienced, ongoing histories of white supremacism.
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- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.1353/sdn.2015.0029
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Pub. Date:
- 2015-6-21
- Journal:
- Studies in the Novel
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 2
- Page Range:
- 231 - 245
- ISSN:
- 1934-1512
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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“To Be from the Country of People Who Gave”: National Allegory and the United States of Adichie’s Americanah