This article explores some important issues within the outlook of diaspora and the effects of displacement on the lives of immigrants. Approaches to gender, decolonization, globalization and Afropolitanism have been purposely adopted to clarify and deepen the analysis of their stories, with a special focus on the importance of Nigeria for the writer and her characters in the interconnection between Africa and the West, the 'global South' and 'global North'. Through the tension of adaptation and resistance to white norms and white privilege, racism, sexism, and classism of British and American societies, Adichie attempts to define the hybrid identity of the two protagonists and explore their strategies of resistance to overcome suffering. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Fiction award, the novel describes the formative processes of a heroine and a hero who meet and fall in love in Nigeria, migrate to the West, and ultimately reunite in their home country fifteen years later. This article analyses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013) as a postcolonial coming-of-age story, which rewrites the stereo-typical plot of romance and the male-female double Bildungsroman, from the perspective of two mar-ginalized characters, simultaneously deconstructing the Eurocentric patriarchal literary canon. Stories in literature and in mythology carry a unique ability to teach, admonish, and denounce while representing a way to fight against conventional images and ideas. Therefore, the success of Adichie’s narrative oeuvre lies largely in its regional socio-cultural attestation and in its appeal to the literary tradition. The socio-cultural exigencies that have prompted the writing of this novel the embodiment in it of trans-cultural forms is an eloquent expression of the common humanity of all people. These patterns and images are older than mankind, and they have been there from prehistoric times. The manifestations of the dyadic myth explored in this project and the production of these flashes of insights clearly demonstrate the autonomy of Adichie’s world, while revealing, at the same time, primal categories of thoughts, beliefs, behavioural patterns and practices which exist and predate even the period of the gods. In Ifemelu, the observer is struck with the image of Aphrodite Pandemos to Obinze, it is an unquenchable taste like that of Tantalus and Aunty Uju is observed under the influence of the Fortune god.
The archetypal critical approach to the analysis of the characters in this study reveals that each character responds to a kind of cosmic phenomenon which has the capacity to produce in the observer flashes of instantaneous comprehensions. The mythic structures are perceived in dyadic figuration: the quest myth and the myth of the year god. This study isolates myth as one of the structural principles of literature.
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