Bourasse Nora Ms.Benaceur Nadia, Ms. Rebbahi Khaoula2024-03-042024-03-042023-06AN/070/2023http://dspace.univ-msila.dz:8080//xmlui/handle/123456789/42528ABSTRACT This thesis analyses the themes of identity and displacement in Noviolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. Throughout the novel, Bulawayo examines serious issues such as identity, displacement and culture shock. She exposes the experiences that the Zimbabwean young girl immigrant faces in America. This thesis attempts to decipher the impacts of culture shock, identity crisis and displacement on the protagonist and the other Zimbabweans to address their experience with displacement as newcomers. This study is conducted through the implementation of two literary theories: Post colonialism and Ecocriticism to show how protagonist’s struggle to cope with the new American society and how this environment affects her identity. Bulawayo draws attention to the fact that migrants could never be able to blend into new culture without the risk of losing their own identities and how displacement and the drastic change of the character’s homeland may cause identity crisis. This study finds out how natural elements massively manipulate the human evolution and even affect the human physiology, how the protagonist Darling struggles to negotiate her identity as an immigrant in a foreign country and culture in addition to how the new environment "America" appeared to be challenging as it causes the protagonist'identity crisis and culture shock.enKey Words: Displacement, identity, culture shock, America, We Need New NamesThesis