Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

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Autor(a) principal: Dias, Maria Victória e Silva
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Pinto, Josane Daniela Freitas
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: REVELL : Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS
Texto Completo: https://periodicosonline.uems.br/index.php/REV/article/view/3636
Resumo: This paper aims to analyze racist discourses and identity aspects in the novel Americanah (2013), written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The main objectives of this research are to identify the impacts immigration brought to the protagonist’s social and personal life and to determine how her identity construction was affected by stereotypes and social structure. The methodology used in this study was a bibliographical research. The work is divided into two sections: firstly, a literature review, explaining theories on Critical Discourse Analysis, identity and racism, developed by authors such as Beale (1970), Smit (1996), Fairclough (2009) and Feagin (2014); afterwards, a critical analysis of excerpts and dialogues extracted from the book.
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Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
title Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
spellingShingle Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
Dias, Maria Victória e Silva
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Critical Discourse Analysis
Racism
Identity
Immigration.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Critical Discourse Analysis
Racism
Identity
Immigration.
title_short Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
title_full Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
title_fullStr Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
title_full_unstemmed Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
title_sort Racism and identity: a critical discourse analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
author Dias, Maria Victória e Silva
author_facet Dias, Maria Victória e Silva
Pinto, Josane Daniela Freitas
author_role author
author2 Pinto, Josane Daniela Freitas
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Dias, Maria Victória e Silva
Pinto, Josane Daniela Freitas
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Critical Discourse Analysis
Racism
Identity
Immigration.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Critical Discourse Analysis
Racism
Identity
Immigration.
topic Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Critical Discourse Analysis
Racism
Identity
Immigration.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Critical Discourse Analysis
Racism
Identity
Immigration.
description This paper aims to analyze racist discourses and identity aspects in the novel Americanah (2013), written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The main objectives of this research are to identify the impacts immigration brought to the protagonist’s social and personal life and to determine how her identity construction was affected by stereotypes and social structure. The methodology used in this study was a bibliographical research. The work is divided into two sections: firstly, a literature review, explaining theories on Critical Discourse Analysis, identity and racism, developed by authors such as Beale (1970), Smit (1996), Fairclough (2009) and Feagin (2014); afterwards, a critical analysis of excerpts and dialogues extracted from the book.
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