Beautiful Dreams: Deconstructing Discourses of Redemption in Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1995), Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (2009), Adichie’s Americanah (2013) And Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016)

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dc.contributor.authorMakokha, Gloria Ajami
dc.contributor.authorMuhia, Mugo
dc.contributor.authorObura, Oluoch
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-12T10:11:38Z
dc.date.available2023-04-12T10:11:38Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper entails an analysis of how in their different particularities, Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon, Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street; Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers explore the underbelly of notions informing the discourse of a redemptive West for Africans located at the margins of globalisation. The analysis locates Chimamanda’s Americanah and Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers within the racialised polity in the USA, in the midst of either a global economic meltdown or individual inability to access the fruits of globalisation because of the fact of race or immigration status. It also explores how choicelessness in the job market in Europe informs the radical choice of persisting at the social and economic margins of Europe despite the harsh realities and outcomes in this choice. This paper demonstrates that the questions of place at particular moments in history force a revision of initial fantasy about the notions of the redemptive West. This textual analysis is informed by the postcolonial theory, as articulated by Robert Nichols and Homi Bhabha and their postulations on identity, ‘othering’ and ‘in-between spaces’.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMakokha, G. A., Muhia, M., & Obura, O. (2022). Beautiful dreams: Deconstructing discourses of redemption in Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1995), Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (2009), Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016). Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 4(3), 11-24.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2707-2150
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/25166
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoyallite Globalen_US
dc.subjectAfrican descenten_US
dc.subjectdiasporaen_US
dc.subjectfemale charactersen_US
dc.subjecthomeen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectimmigrantsen_US
dc.subjectthe Westen_US
dc.titleBeautiful Dreams: Deconstructing Discourses of Redemption in Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1995), Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (2009), Adichie’s Americanah (2013) And Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016)en_US
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