• V.B.Sowmiya
• Dr. K Radah

Literature is usually the creative works of the best brains in a particular language and culture. The usefulness of Literature as can be seen in the light of the foregoing has first to do with the study of a language as a medium of communication which brings us into contact with the world. This is necessary for both our physical and spiritual world, because language touches on both. Secondly, Literature has a civilizing value, opening before us a vista into the universal human experience as opposed as potion or assertion by scholars with non - literary background, who conceive Literature as mere story telling medium. Thirdly, Literature can create a better citizen because of its salutary influence on our psyche and attitude to life. This is greatly in a way that it can train our minds to receive opposing values. It is basically on this platform that Literature has become a veritable element for cultural globalization, especially for Africa whose Literature has been denigrated and repudiated by Western critics all along, on the claim that African Literature does not aspire to ideological universalism which they claim to be peculiar reserve of the Western works, to the exclusion of works from other races. After all, western literary works, like the African, emerged from the pre – literate western cultures to what they later on become in the Middle - age.

RACE AND CASTE IN CHIMAMANDA NAGOZI ADICHIE’S NOVEL “AMERICANAH”

"RACE AND CASTE IN CHIMAMANDA NAGOZI ADICHIE’S NOVEL “AMERICANAH”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.896-900, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06187.pdf

"RACE AND CASTE IN CHIMAMANDA NAGOZI ADICHIE’S NOVEL “AMERICANAH”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp896-900, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06187.pdf