Os Efeitos da imigração: uma análise pós-colonial de Americanah, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Abstract

This dissertation aims to understand the sociocultural phenomena arising from an immigration process and what the effects of such a process cause on individuals who voluntarily or unwillingly embark on the challenge of contemporary displacement, whether in the form of diaspora, exile, refuge or displacement or from another motivating nature. From this perspective, the dissertation has as corpus of analysis the novel Americanah (2013), by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In order to achieve the intended goal, the most relevant characters are studied, as they are able to promote the denunciation of their exploitation as immigrants in the United States and in England. In this sense, the work’s methodology is a bibliographical one, since it will be based on the investigation of research on immigration, post-colonial studies and the literature that is currently dedicated to issues involving cultural mobilities. Thus, theoreticians such as Hall (2003), Bonnici (2005), Mignolo (2004), Canclini (2003), Fanon (2008), Zolin (2009) and others are studied and contemplated in the support plan of the theoretical-literary debate of this dissertation, in order to highlight how the marginalized subject manages to develop and extend his or her own cultural roots within a neocolonizing oppression system. It is intended, therefore, that these correlations, identified in the novel, which are metonymic fictional representations of the immigrant subject’s reality, lead to some considerations about the situation of the marginalized, ghettoized, black, and immigrant subject in a neo-imperial nation as the United States of America, in this context, to expose the resilience, rebuilding and creation that arise after the cultural shock.