Her second encounter with racism follows shortly thereafter at a railway station in Germany when a German woman points her out to her daughter as a black woman. Sissie's first encounter with racism takes place immediately upon her departure from Ghana on the plane to Europe which symbolically is coming from South Africa thus highlighting not only the continued presence of racism but also its relationship to the colonization of the African continent. Our Sister Killjoy: Characterizing Immigration/Emigration Megan Behrent, Brown University '97 The protagonist Sissie is found travelling many places and hence through her encounter with those settled people from Africa we can get the description of how the lives of those Africans have changed in the European land.This paper is an attempt to root out the instances of identity and acculturation as a result of crossing the border of a nation.Our Sister Killjoy: Characterizing Immigration/Emigration Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy attributes a lot of instances regarding the issues of identity and acculturation.
Multicultural theorist James Banks refers to “multiple acculturation” as the incorporation of different heritages into the identity development process (Dorris, 239). Crossing of a border of any system basically results in the crisis of identity and acculturation with other system directly or indirectly.
Identity refers to the close similarity or affinity and acculturation refers to assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one. Basically border- crossing refers to the state of crossing any boundary and it results in the intersection of two different cultures.
According to Oxford English Dictionary, the term ‘Border’ refers to a line separating two countries, administrative divisions, or other areas.
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