From Displacement to Defiance: Cultural Conflict and New Womanhood in the Diasporic Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Bapsi Sidhwa

This research article offers a comparative analysis of Americanah published in the year 2013 authored by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, along with another novel An American Brat published in the year 1993 authored by Bapsi Sidhwa. The authors, Sidhwa, along with Adichie, presented the protagonists as the 'New Women'. The protagonists were depicted as 'educated, self-aware, independent women'. The research work has analyzed the 'constant changing of womanhood, cultural tensions, and the life journey of the protagonists'. In addition, the research work investigates the impact of 'geographical displacement, which propels the women to resist the set patriarchal structures in society'. The research work has identified the connections between 'gender, race, and immigration in the postcolonial feminist period'. The research article, in this manner, highlights the diasporic women's identities, which are continuously reconceived by the decussate power structures of marginalization.