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Abstract
This thesis investigates the self-concept of the black people in the 20th century and the 21th century and its role in shaping black people’s identity as handled by two novelists: the Afro-American Toni Morrison and the African Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Self-concept is related to social and physiological issues. Self-concept means how one sees and understands himself. The study explores the importance of the self-concept of the black people because it is related to one’s opinion, choices, and motives, which both novelists strongly express in their novels The Bluest Eye (1970) and Americanah (2013). After analyzing the two selected novels, the thesis aims at showing how Morrison and Adichie handle self-concept in terms of different nationalities and generations. Morrison’s and Adichie’s aim is to call upon black people to be proud of their black skin and to embrace the black identity because it gives black people a sense of self-respect, dignity and identity. Morrison and Adichie want to inform the whole world that literature cannot be monopolized by single culture. Literature is for all cultures, regardless of skin color.