The second aspect of this article analyzes how the novel in general oscillates between fostering racial solidarity between American Blacks and non-American Blacks and critiquing African immigrants as a new model minority. The first is the novel's protagonist, Ifemelu, and her anonymously authored blog, which contains cultural commentary on race relations in the US from the perspective of an African immigrant, or, what the author terms, a “non-American Black.” Through her blog, Ifemelu rhetorically signals racial solidarity with African Americans, but the protagonist also divulges how average white American readers assume that all blacks regardless of national origin share in the same experience of blackness.
In advancing this thesis, the article analyzes two aspects of the novel. From the perspective of Patricia Hill Collins' concept of the “outsider within,” the article argues for the significance of recognizing how the “outsider within” viewpoint featured in Adichie's counter-narratives offers a cultural insider a “valid source of knowledge” for interrogating cultural hegemony in the US.
This article examines how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah (2013) re-imagines racial solidarity between African immigrants of the “new” African diaspora and African Americans of the “old” African diaspora.
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