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Summary and Analysis of Americanah: Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Summary and Analysis of Americanah: Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Summary and Analysis of Americanah: Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Summary and Analysis of Americanah: Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah:
 
Spanning more than two decades and three countries, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s critically acclaimed novel is an astonishingly frank and multilayered work of literature that shines a harsh light on issues of race, class, feminism, and identity. Told from the perspective of two young Nigerians living abroad, Americanah is part love story and part unapologetic commentary on society and the immigrant experience.
 
Honest, witty, revealing, and inspirational, Americanah is a unique and bold examination of what it means to be black in America.
 
The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of fiction.
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Release dateJan 24, 2017
ISBN9781504043731
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    Summary and Analysis of

    Americanah

    Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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    The summary and analysis in this ebook are meant to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of fiction. This ebook is not intended as a substitute for the work that it summarizes and analyzes, and it is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the work’s author or publisher. Worth Books makes no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this ebook.

    Contents

    Context

    Overview

    Cast of Characters

    Summary

    Character Analysis

    Themes and Symbols

    Author’s Style

    Direct Quotes and Analysis

    Trivia

    What’s That Word?

    Critical Response

    About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    For Your Information

    Bibliography

    Copyright

    Context

    Spanning three decades and three continents, the journey for Ifemelu and Obinze begins in the mid-1980s, a time of great political and civil unrest in Nigeria, with three major military regimes in power, and many young Nigerians fleeing in search of opportunity abroad. The protagonist of the novel, Ifemelu, much like the Nigerian-born author, chooses to begin a new life for herself in America when she graduates from high school. And, like the author, she must learn to navigate her way through American culture as an outsider.

    With a beautiful love story at its core, Americanah explores what it means to be a person of color facing issues of class, culture, racial divide, and bigotry in a so-called post-racial era.

    Though Americans did elect their first black president (despite the fact of his blackness being questioned in some circles), and the Jim Crow era and civil rights movement are decades in the past, racial equality is still very much a myth in the United States. Notably, prejudice is still rampant

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