In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah the quest mythic journey of the protagonist to America and the movement of other characters to America and Europe depicts escape.
But this kind of escape is different from turning away from your present location. It encompasses stepping into a world that offers clarity, courage, and cosmic beauty when the real world feels too confusing, boring and harsh.
Disillusionment and self-discovery account for mythic escapism in Adichie's Americanah. By the actions of the characters one begins to interrogate what must prompt their desire to embark on the
..the mythic journey. For instance Uju, a female character in the text runs to America as soon as her General boy friend dies in an aircraft disaster, Ifemelu joins her in America given incessant strike by lecturers as an excuse...
Given that Chimamanda's Ngozi Adichie's Americanah has been copiously read along the line of intertextuality, return migration, diasporic, border studies, cultural hybridization, femalist, feminism and archetypal critical discouse, but to the best knowledge of this tesearcher
A review of studies of Adichie's Americanah shows critics who have wandered into intertextuality, cultural hybridization, border studies, femalist, feminist, trauma and archetypal critical discourse, but to the best of the knowledge of this research no study of the text as mythic escapism has been done.
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