A companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
By: edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781847011626; 9781847011633
Subjects: Feminist fiction; Women authors; African American authors; American fiction; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Nigerian fiction
Description: Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps, introduced new motifs and narrative varieties 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 ingenuous craftsmanship 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 to people 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 imaginative creativity 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 contributions to 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Ernest N. Emenyonu; title: Narrating the Past : Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  -- Louisa Uchum Egbunike; title: Deconstructing Binary Oppositions of Gender in Purple Hibiscus : A Review of Religious/Traditional Superiority & Silence  -- Janet Ndula; title: Adichie & the West African Voice : Women & Power in Purple Hibiscus  -- Jane Duran; title: Reconstructing Motherhood : A Mutative Reality in Purple Hibiscus  -- Iniobong I. Uko; title: Ritualized Abuse in Purple Hibiscus  -- Edgar Fred Nabutanyi; title: Dining Room & Kitchen : Food-Related Spaces & their Interfaces with the Female Body in Purple Hibiscus  -- Jessica Hume; title: The Paradox of Vulnerability : The Child Voice in Purple Hibiscus  -- Oluwole Coker; title: 'Fragile Negotiations' : Olanna's Melancholia in Half of a Yellow Sun  -- Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo; title: The Biafran War & the Evolution of Domestic Space in Half of a Yellow Sun  -- Janice Spleth; title: Corruption in Post-Independence Politics : Half of a Yellow Sun as a Reflection of A Man of the People  -- Chikwendu Paschalkizito Anyanwu; title: Contrasting Gender Roles in Male-Crafted Fiction with Half of a Yellow Sun  -- Carol Ijeoma Njoku; title: 'A Kind of Paradise' : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Claim to Agency, Responsibility & Writing  -- Silvana Carotenuto; title: Dislocation, Cultural Memory & Transcultural Identity in Select Stories from The Thing Around Your Neck  -- Manish Shrivastava; title: 'Reverse Appropriations' & Transplantation in Americanah  -- Gichingiri Ndigirigi; title: Revisiting Double Consciousness & Relocating the Self in Americanah  -- Rose A. Sackeyfio; title: Adichie's Americanah : A Migrant Bildungsroman  -- Mary Jane Androne; title: 'Hairitage' Matters : Transitioning & the Third Wave Hair Movement in 'Hair', 'Imitation' & Americanah -- Cristina Cruz-Gutierrez.