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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Half of a Yellow Sun"”.
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Woman as enemy of the nation-state: citizenship, transgression and legacy in Maps and Half of a Yellow Sun
… to the fore two non-focalising characters, Misra of Maps by Nuruddin Farah and Kainene 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 …
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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)
… analyze three novels, Pachinko by Min Jin 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 …
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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
The main focus of the study was to comparatively analyse The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy and 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 …
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Portrayal of Female Family Members in Selected Works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
… na interpretaci románů Purple Hibiscus a Half of a Yellow Sun a kolekce povídek 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, …
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Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus".
… 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, the novel's setting-a revolutionary-era Nigeria-is …
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Breakable binaries : representations of twins in African and African American literature, film, television, and cultures
This project explores the fascinating trope of twins in our cultural imaginary, examining representations of twinship in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African and African American literature, film, and television. Considering such texts as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Chimamanda Ngozi …
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The Evolution of Feminism in Nigerian Media: A Look At IGBO Culture Films
This thesis addresses the subject of feminism in the Nigerian media, particularly on how issues related to women’s rights and gender discrimination have been addressed in Igbo culture Nigerian films. For several decades, the Nigerian home video industry, dominated by Igbo culture-themed films, has …
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If We Could Learn to Learn from Pain: A Contemporary Literary Ethics of Women's Suffering and Self-Sacrifice
… well as the way several contemporary discussions of ethics--including feminisms, theologies, and poststructuralist theory--crystallize around redemptive sacrifice. Noting that the late-twentieth-century turn to ethics in literary studies participates in a problematic erasure of the gendered and …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
This thesis examines key literary representations of black women’s historical trauma linked to colonialism and slavery. Through comparative readings of contemporary fiction by black women writers from two continents, I explore the intimate links between the historical traumas of colonialism and …