An appraisal of gender experiences in selected African migrant narratives analysis of Chimamanda Adichies Americanah and the thing around your neck Department:Languages and Literatures By: benblezy Project ID: 8304 Rating: (5.0) votes: 1 Price:₦5000 Get the Complete MaterialAbstractThis research set out to interrogate the challenges faced by African immigrants as reflected in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck. The study also set out to compare and contrast the male and female experiences of African immigrants in the West. To achieve this, the research utilizes African feminism as a theoretical framework. Through a close reading of the texts, the study reveals that the interconnectedness between race, gender and class issues poses a major challenge for female African immigrants as reflected through racism, stereotyping, economic pressure and male domination. The study further establishes that both men and women are faced with comparable experiences in the West however men choose to react to these circumstances differently. While women form a close-knit relationship, men on the other hand are antagonistic towards each other. Although Adichie projects the female experience as closely- knit and the male one as friction-filled, this in itself is not contradictory. Adichie seems to point out that the male response is as a result of the pressures of immigrant status. There is an attempt by the author to present the male-female experience as complementary in nature. The study further establishes that Adichie envisions a world where African immigrants are not oppressed by the West on account of their color but treated as equal beings in relation to the West....Preview Download Preview +Other Languages and Literatures project topics and materials you might be interested in»Effects of non-use of instructional materials in the teaching of English language in secondary schools»Irony in Drama Hamlet by William Shakespeare»The portrayal of female image a reading of Buchi Emecheta's the bride price»The romance with vampires - a study of Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Razinat T Mohammed’s Habiba»Diasporic literature a reading of Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah»An appraisal of gender experiences in selected African migrant narratives analysis of Chimamanda Adichies Americanah and the thing around your neck»Character and characterization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus