Abstract
This paper examines Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and it’s troubling of the silencing and policing of black female migrants. Focusing on the salon/hairdressers and Ifemelu’s blog, I argue that the former represents an intimate and politicized narrative space whose production and habitation invites us to engage with migrant/feminine interactions and non-normative feminine aesthetics. In addition, I read the virtual site of Ifemelu’s blog as a space that transcends the circumscribed nature of interracial relations and dialogues. By portraying these spaces’ cultivation of heterogeneity and polyvocality, Adichie’s text advances an alternative politics of inhabiting racially and patriarchally hierarchized foreign spaces.
Recommended Citation
Ndaka, Felix Mutunga
(2017)
"Rupturing the Genre: Un-Writing Silence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah,"
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 18:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol18/iss1/5