20.500.12556/RUL-180416 Systemic violence and precarious masculinity in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah Sistemsko nasilje in negotova moškost v romanu Americanah Chimamande Adichie Going by African ideals of hegemonic masculinity, a man must be financially buoyant, powerful, and able to fulfil the provider role in his home. Ifemelu’s (unnamed) father in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah defies this cultural expectation. With critical investigations of this character lacking in the literature, this study, through a qualitative analysis built on the concept of systemic violence, complimented by the transitivity system in Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics and stylistic devices of negation, repetition, and value-laden language, investigates how the character’s varied experiences, especially his job loss, leads to his emasculation. The findings reveal that the socio-economic workings of the nation prevent Ifemelu’s father from actualizing his aspirations while empowering the privileged to oppress him. In this way, the systemic violence endemic to the workings of the system is responsible for Ifemelu’s father’s financial distress, loss of power and fatherly authority, inability to fulfil provider role at home, and thus his eventual emasculation. Glede na afriške ideale hegemonistične moškosti mora biti moški finančno uspešen, močan in sposoben izpolnjevati vlogo skrbnika v svojem domu. Ifemelujin oče v romanu Americanah Chimamande Adichie se zoperstavi takim kulturnim pričakovanjem. Ker v literaturi primanjkuje kritičnih raziskav tega lika, ta študija s kvalitativno analizo, ki temelji na konceptu sistemskega nasilja v povezavi s Hallidayevim sistemom prehodnosti in stilističnimi sredstvi negacije, ponavljanja ter vrednostno obremenjenega jezika, raziskuje, kako različne izkušnje lika, zlasti izguba službe, vodijo do njegove izgube moškosti. Ugotovitve kažejo, da družbeno-gospodarsko delovanje države Ifemelujinemu očetu onemogoča uresničevanje njegovih ambicij, hkrati pa privilegiranim omogoča, da ga zatirajo. S tem je sistemsko nasilje, ki je endemično za delovanje sistema, odgovorno za finančno stisko Ifemelujinega očeta, izgubo moči in očetovske avtoritete, nezmožnost izpolnjevanja vloge skrbnika v domu in njegovo končno kastracijo. systemic violence hegemonic masculinity third-generation Nigerian writing sistemsko nasilje hegemonistična moškost nigerijsko pisanje tretje generacije true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-03-09 11:03:01 2026-03-09 11:03:09 2026-03-10 04:28:30 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 61-81 no. 2 Vol. 22 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 821.111(669).09-311.2Adichie C. 1581-8918 10.4312/elope.22.2.61-81 270924035 RAZ_Idowu-Faith_Bimbola_2025.pdf RAZ_Idowu-Faith_Bimbola_2025.pdf 1 013546ED7C5BE6F424158888F9A0AC19 95fb6dbb339a89cb3e3be7c1b863313ac1a6ae7a061979127485b7427c7ab908 f8172d10-1b9e-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=229778 https://journals.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/22006 1 c371369c-1b9e-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=229777 Filozofska fakulteta ELOPE 0 0 0