DISPLACEMENT AND MIGRATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURE: A POST COLONIAL STUDY OF SERUM AFOLABI'S A LIFE ELSEWHERE AND ADICHE CHIMANDA'S AMERICANAH
ABSTRACT
The study explores the Displacement and Migration in African Literature: A Post Colonial Study of Serum Afolabi's A Life Elsewhere and Adiche Chimanda's Americanah. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out to scrutinize the extent to which the identity status of migrants in Americanah and A Life Elsewhere lead to discrimination in their hostland, explore the denigrating realities of migration and the attendant dislocations demonstrated in the texts understudy and demonstrate that the tenets of postcolonial theory are viable tools for projecting the challenges faced by migrants. Migration is here explored in the light of how its attendant realities; of stereotypes, gender bias, racial discrimination, class difference, among others; amount to social exclusion, isolation and denial of opportunity. This research proceeds on the assumptions that migration is only an illusion of a better lease of life and that, there arein the selected texts, representations of the tendencies of dislocations, identity crises and stereotypes that accompany migration. Consequently, the research adopts postcolonial discourse as a theoretical framework in order to explore the binarisms that the tenets of Postcolonialism provide in terms of gender, race, and class, among others. This work is significant because it will serve as a resource material, relevant for scholars whose interests are in exile literature, African Literature, Migration Studies and other related fields in that, it centres on a contemporary issue which is migration especially with the recent ailing economy that rocks most countries of the world, and the imbalanced power relations that exists between different countries. The research therefore concludes that the world of migrants is a dicey one and it dislocates, alienates and stereotypes on account of the binaries that characterise race, gender, class and other forms of identity markers within the experience of migration.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Introduction
Migration is caused by pull and push factors which are the terms used to demonstrate the different shades of forced migration and voluntary migration. Push factors represent migration caused by wars, poverty, insecurity, ecological degradation amongst others, pull factors are largely influenced by socioeconomic and sociological reasons like unemployment, cultural clashes amongst others (Kornert, 2007). Migration can be regular or irregular, these convey the notion of the legality of the immigrant‘s stay in the host country. Regular migrants are registered immigrants who are eligible to stay in the host land either through the instrumentation of a legal visa for the purpose of work or study or a transmutation of one‘s citizenship through marriage and other host land policies.
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
The review of relevant literature is the main topic of this chapter. A literature review covers theoretical and methodological contributions to a certain issue in addition to the state of knowledge at the time of writing. It provides information about the state of the art in relation to the subject you are writing about. It examines the body of work on the chosen subject. The literature evaluation in this study comprises the …
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