A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.
Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel,
Purple Hibiscus (2003). With
Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and
The Thing Around Your Neck – Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a preeminent story-teller.
Americanah (2013), with ingeniouscraftsmanship addresses the sensitive themes of passionate love, independence, freedom and moral responsibility with extravagant and versatile narrative innovations.
Through her writings, she has made herself relevant topeople of all ages – across racial and linguistic boundaries. Her talks, blogs, musings on social media, essays and commentaries, workshop-mentoring for budding young writers, lecture circuit discourses, all enrich her imaginativecreativity as they expand and define her mission as a writer. ‘We Should All be Feminists’ she proclaimed in an essay, giving feminism a ‘tweak and twist’ and suggesting new outlooks in literary theory.
Her contributionsto African, Diasporic and World literatures deserve serious analyses, commentaries and interpretations, and this Companion to her work critically examines her creative outputs from her art and ideology, from feminism to war, to matters of myth and perception, and the challenges of multicultural existence and complex human identities.
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.
Cuprins
Introduction – Ernest N. Emenyonu
Narrating the Past: Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Louisa Uchum Egbunike
Deconstructing Binary Oppositions of Gender in
Purple Hibiscus: A Review of Religious/Traditional Superiority & Silence – Janet N. Ndula
Adichie & the West African Voice: A Focus on Women & Power in
Purple Hibiscus – Jane Duran
Reconstructing Motherhood: A Mutative Reality in
Purple Hibiscus – Iniobong I. Uko
Ritualized Abuse in
Purple Hibiscus – Edgar Fred Nabutanyi
Dining Room & Kitchen: Food-Related Spaces & their Interfaces with the Female Body in
Purple Hibiscus – Jessica C. Hume
The Paradox of Vulnerability: The Child Voice in
Purple Hibiscus – Oluwole Coker
‘Fragile Negotiations’: Olanna’s Melancholia in
Half of a Yellow Sun – Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo
The Biafran War & the Evolution of Domestic Space in
Half of a Yellow Sun – Janice Spleth
Corruption in Post-Independence Politics:
Half of a Yellow Sun as a Reflection of
A Man of the People – Chikwendu PK Anyanwu
Contrasting Gender Roles in Male-Crafted Fiction with
Half of a Yellow Sun – Carol Ijeoma Njoku
‘A Kind of Paradise’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Claim to Agency, Responsibility & Writing – Silvana Carotenuto
Dislocation, Cultural Memory & Transcultural Identity in Select Short Stories from
The Thing Around Your Neck – Maitrayee Misra
Dislocation, Cultural Memory & Transcultural Identity in Select Short Stories from
The Thing Around Your Neck – Manish Shrivastava
‘Reverse Appropriations’ & Transplantation in
Americanah – Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Revisiting Double Consciousness & Relocating the Self in
Americanah – Rose A. Sackeyfio
Americanah: A Migrant Bildungsroman – Mary Jane Androne
‘Hairitage’ Matters: Transitioning & the Third Wave Hair Movement in ‘Hair’, ‘Imitation’ &
Americanah – Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez
Appendix: The Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Despre autor
LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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