Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies work often casts light on various identity problems that contemporary women who immigrate to the United States from Africa confront.Being a Nigerian immigrant to the US, the writer is driven by the importance "to tell African stories" in her writing (Azodo 147)."The Things Around Your Neck" (2009) depicts struggles of a Nigerian woman in the US to live among American values and to maintain relationships with her home country changelessly, and another story, "The American Embassy" (2009), offers difficulties of a Nigerian woman exposed to risk from the Nigerian government to escape to the US through a scene of her unsuccessful visa interview.Adichies style of writings is often said to reflect the aesthetic of "Afropolitanism," the contemporary African way of embracing their multinational identity.As one of her "Afropolitan" texts, Americanah (2014) also depicts the modern immigrants pursuit of their identity, especially Ifemelu, the protagonist, who departs from her own country and comfortable relationships to find herself in a foreign soil surrounded by the asymmetric power balances.
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