Human Affairs
Volume 28, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 406-416

Afropolitan narratives and empathy: Migrant identities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah and Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference (Article)

Pucherova D.*
  • a Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava, 841 04, Slovakia

Abstract

The article analyzes two novels of migration by Nigerian women authors in the context of Afropolitanism: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013) and Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference (2013). It is argued that Afropolitanism obscures the reasons why migration from Africa to the West has been increasing in the decades since independence, rather than decreasing. In comparing the two novels, the article focuses on empathy towards and solidarity between fellow Nigerians, which has been seen by Nigerian philosopher Chielozona Eze as crucial for building African civil society and functional state. © 2018 Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Author Keywords

empathy Nigerian expatriate writers Nigerian women writers Afropolitanism Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Sefi Atta

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85056106541&doi=10.1515%2fhumaff-2018-0033&partnerID=40&md5=6642ac07271531c5d1e367467a0b7519
DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2018-0033
ISSN: 12103055
Original Language: English