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The idea of ""diaspora"" is an everyday concept for many people around the world who have left their homeland voluntarily or by force with the hope of making a new home in another place. In recent years, academics have used this term to reference conflating categories such as immigrants, ethnic and racial minorities, and refugees. This book examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013). Americanah tells the story of a smart young girl named Ifemelu who leaves Nigeria for America in search of higher education. In America, she faces several problems before graduating from college. This book investigates Americanah through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.

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Vida Rahiminezhad is Assistant Professor in the Research Institute for Education at the Organization for Educational Research and Planning, Iran, and received a PhD in English Literature from Pune University, India. Her publications include A Study of Women's Empowerment in the Works of Manju Kapur and Anita Nair; Asian Women from Different Perspectives; and Voices, Novels, and Literary Translation: A Case Study of Persian Translations of Alice Munro's Works. She is also the author of 28 articles, including ""Gender and Social Issues in Persian Translation: A Case Study of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake"", ""A Study of Women and Sustainability: Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing"", and ""Similarities and Contrast of Culture of Women ""Otherness"" in English as well as Persian Languages: ""Analysis of Bhutto's Daughter of the East"", among others.Soheila Arabian is the holder of a Master's Degree in English Literature from Islamic Azad University, Ahar Branch, Iran.

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