Adapting to Life in America: Cultural Loss in the Thing Around your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Abstract

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's work reflects on globalization and the aftereffects of colonization both in former colonies and colonial populations often displaced around the world. Her fiction frequently centres on the mass migration of Nigerians, as well as other nationalities, to the United States of America. This paper aims to elucidate the depiction of instances of cultural loss and the adaptative techniques employed by Nigerian immigrants to cope with life in America and its imperative of cultural assimilation.