Hierarchy of Shades in Adichie’s Americanah: A Feminist Study

Abstract

This critical discursive study highlights how third-world women’s writings perceive the hierarchy of shades in American multiracial society. Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah critiques the truths of American political thought about equal rights for black women in American white society and hence assesses the importance of black women’s writings in a phallocentric white world. With reference to Helen Cixous’s theoretical assumptions of ecriture feminism, this study focuses on the misery of ‘women of color’ in American society to understand how and why white and brown gazes, whether male or female, disregard black women’s presence in White communities. This study will describe the affiliations between white men and black women, between white women and black women and between brown women and black women in White societies.