Negotiation of Cross-Cultural Complexities of New Worlds in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Novels (original) (raw)

This paper carries further the formal and thematic pattern of discussion as set in the preceding articles on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s works. It discusses the suitability of the dialogic principle as established in Bakhtin’s theory, Said’s Orientalism, Bhabha’s ‘othering’ and Fanon’s ‘wretchedness.’ It explores Adichie’s novels as platforms upon which émigrés’ navigation of cross-cultural complexities are imaginatively depicted. Adichie’s novels are interrogated in this section as fictionalised accounts of cross-cultural complexities of new locations. Subjected to atrocities, social evils and difficulties in conflict situations or other unbearable circumstances, civilians are forced to flee their homelands. The flight nonetheless does not, in a number of cases, put an end to émigrés’ plights. A long struggle for survival, settlement and return await them at the places they migrate to. Female and male émigrés deal differently with trauma of dislocation, renegotiating identities and ...