Feminism Expansion from Womanism in Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved to Afropolitanism in Adichie’s Americanah

Abstract

There are many writers whose pathbreaking works tried to fix feminism as a concept; but it was difficult to put it in a name as to what it fits all the societies. This research work is an attempt to set epistemological set of definitions about feminism which has been changing through time by distinct academic communities, in particular, black women who were faced with challenges to voice self identity and to break silence. Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Beloved, and Adichie’s Americanah, are the research sample novels, used as primary sources to analyzing a better comprehension of black women issues. Both Morrison and Adichie, though never planned to do it together, worked as a collectivity, each in her own region, and her own standpoint to visualize, for the public, black womanhood. Adichie’s Americanah is selected to talk back about what was formerly unthinkable; and bravely voiced in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Beloved. One of the research findings indicates the contribution of both Morrison and Adichie to defend and assess brilliantly the position of black women. Further, the research reflects close attention that Morrison is a context responsive observer; while Adichie is a critically global reporter of the incidents of Black women. Accordingly, both novelists are natural and realist, to voice the experience of the woman under the prejudice of “blackness” and “africanness” wrongly viewed as negative.