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 homes. This study also interrogates Adichie’s feminist philosophy and posits that she typically agitates for equality for all regardless of sex, gender, race, and/or other defining identities. Lastly, I argue that Adichie uses the practice of the African novel to rewrite the character of African women in African literature where her uniqueness hinges on her interrogation of the place of Africans in contemporary world culture, in turn, uses the novel to critique society’s hierarchies of privilege and oppression and of stereotypical representation of Africa and Africans in the world arena.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Campus Only Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2018

Author dc:creator

• Palapala, Joan Linda

Contributors dc:contributor

• Fox, Robert
• Boulukos, George

• Adichie
• Feminism
• Novel
• Postcolonial
• Trans-Atlantic
• Women

Repository record dc:identifier

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1537

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-2541