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Cultural Hybridity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's “Zikora”
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The paper explores the physical and psychological effects of cultural hybridity in Adichie's Zikora. The research adopts a content analysis approach wherein the text is qualitatively evaluated based on the psychological excerpts culled from it. The text is interpreted in line with the ideas of Kathrin Boerner et al. and Elizabeth Kubler Ross' Grief model, which defines and states the five stages of grief. These stages of grief include denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The main character, Zikora, goes through the five stages in addition to the physical effect of hybridity and alienation. The paper concludes that migrants who leave their countries of origin for the new countries face beliefs and values that are not peculiar to their cultural beliefs, as is the case of Zikora.
