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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Adichie"”.
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Portrayal of Female Family Members in Selected Works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
… The Thing around Your Neck od Chimamandy Ngozi Adichie, současné nigerijské prominentní autorky. Teoretická část práce se zaměřuje na politickou, společenskou a ekonomickou reprezentaci žen v předkoloniální, koloniální a moderní postkoloniální Nigérii. Adichie dílo představuje protipól …
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There Is No Place For African Women: Gender Politics in the Writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My dissertation interrogates Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s representation of African women in her literary oeuvre. I argue that her female characters bear witness to intersecting oppressions of African women portraying them as being extremely marginalized at home and lacking achievable alternate …
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Women and subjugation: An evaluation of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by Mary Karooro Okurut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unity Dow, Elieshi Lema and Kaleni Hiyalwa
… Okurut, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Screaming of the Innocent by Unity Dow, Parched Earth by Elieshi Lema and Meekulu’s Children by Kaleni Hiyalwa. The focus was to evaluate women fiction writers’ perspectives on social, economic and political subjugation of women and how …
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Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus".
… by third-generation Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, appears at first glance to be a simple work of adolescent fiction, a <em>bildungsroman</em> in which a pair of siblings navigate the typical challenges of incipient adulthood: social ostracism, an abusive parent, emerging desire. However, …
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Það sem hangir um hálsinn
… Thing Around Your Neck eftir Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Hún inniheldur tólf sögur sem fjalla allar á einn eða annan hátt um persónur eftirlendutímans í Nígeríu. Allar þurfa þær að takast beint eða óbeint á við krísur og innri togstreitu út af afleiðingum nýlendustefnunnar, hvort sem þær upplifðu …
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Woman as enemy of the nation-state: citizenship, transgression and legacy in Maps and Half of a Yellow Sun
… of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. These transgressive characters are placed at the centre of their respective narratives. The aim is to demonstrate the way they transgress conventional political, social, national and gendered boundaries. This transgression creates the space …
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A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
… Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from a postcolonial ecofeminist perspective. Postcolonialism focuses on issues pertaining to power, culture, and religion in relation to humanity, whilst ecofeminism explores the links between the environment and women, connecting women to …
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First Light
… Chigozie Obioma, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Chimamanda Adichie, among others, whose stories continue to shape the context of African literature and affirm its relevance. My work is inflected by the style and intention of these writers—the nationalistic rhetoric; the kind of prose that is faithful to the …
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Stories of Disablement and Displacement - Experiences of Syrian Refugees and their Families: A Qualitative Narrative Research Inquiry
… to tell their story and start with, ‘secondly’" (Adichie, 2009). First-person accounts can inform and educate, clarify misconceptions, and challenge existing policies and practices (Atkinson, 1998; Greenhalg, 2016). Narrative research allows participants to take back their own stories by starting …
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"You're doing mother's work. Women suffer, don't they?" (A third-wave feminist reading of Pachinko, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Four Winds)
… Lee, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. All three novels portray motherhood as the default role, or one of the very few available roles, that women can play within society. But the novels also emphasize the ways in which through this role, …
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Re-mapping the Atlantic: transatlantic mobility in contemporary African literature in French and English
… and growing body of writing: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), Blick Bassy’s Le Moabi Cinéma (2016), Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2013), Abdourahman A. Waberi’s Passage des larmes (2009), and Léonora Miano’s Crépuscule du tourment duology (2016/17). It argues that, in addition to …
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Reconstructing the African and African diasporic woman: gender, race, class and the making of a constructive radical African feminist
… construction. It then uses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah as a new, yet different and more contemporary approach to the same subject. In other words, this dissertation explores how the contemporary approach to storytelling and identity construction has changed the African woman’s …
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For All Peoples and All Nations: Anglophone Literature and the Imaginative Work of International Law (1884-2017)
… Nabokov, Chinua Achebe, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—work through the promises and problems of international jurisprudence. More than a mere reflection of international law’s evolving theory and practice, the literature I treat registers the law’s presumptions and first principles while …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
… <p><em>PURPLE HIBISCUS Chimamanda N. Adichie </em></p> <p><em>‘Benign’ Non Violent Oppression: BRICK LANE Monica Ali</em></p> <p><em>The categories of oppression to be discussed in this thesis are 1. Situational domination of a particular female character. The oppression takes place …
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The Evolution of Feminism in Nigerian Media: A Look At IGBO Culture Films
… the same titles by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie, respectively, and illuminate the depiction of women in the Nigerian media. Based on insights generated from the research evidence, this thesis establishes that Igbo culture films were previously instruments for perpetuating gender …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
… in novels by Toni Morrison, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Scholastique Mukasonga published between 2004 and 2014. The authors I consider represent literary historians engaging with traumatic pasts in order to rewrite and (re)present black women in a global …
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A Casa dos Afetos: mulheres rurais e a performance/escrita de si como forma de resistência
… Bento (2022), Evaristo (2017), Mercês (2022), Adichie (2021) and (2019), Federici (2017), Franco (2001), hooks (2022), Kilomba (2019), Rios (2011), Rolnik (2016), with the narratives told by the twenty-five people interviewed. Regarding the methodological aspects, the following were carried …