Adichie's Genealogies: National and Feminine Novels

Andrade, Susan Z.

doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.42.2.91

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“…Susana Z. Andrade (2011) refers to both of Adichie's novels (2003's Purple Hibiscus and2006's Half of a Yellow Sun) as representing "a politics of the family while quietly but clearly telling stories of the nation" (p. 91Purple Hibiscus).…”

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Identity Construction in Adichies two texts Half of a Yellow Sun, and Purple Hibiscus

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Antony

2021

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The study attempts to examine Identity construction in Adichies texts, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Purple Hibiscus (2003). The study was guided by the reader response theory. A critical reading of the texts has revealed that, every character in both texts has been struggling in constructing his/her identity. The study involved three aspects of identity, which included self, social, and national identity. All children in texts struggle to carve out their own identities through interaction with the environment through which they pass they through. Chimamanfa Adichie is also introducing the concept of social identity, where by the elite in Half of a Yellow Sun organizes to meet in Odenigbo house and share different ideas concerning Pan Africanism, tribalism, nation, and race. Likewise in Purple Hibiscus, the family of aunty Ifeoma with father Amadi helps Jaja and Kambili to build their social identity through interaction, and engaging them into different activities. National identity is also discussed in this study by involving both children and adult characters from the texts. Everyone is looking forward on possible ways in which they can put their hands together to bring harmony and peace in their country. Keywords: Identity, Construction, Adichies texts, Half, Yellow, Sun, Purple, Hibiscus.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Identity Construction in Adichies two texts Half of a Yellow Sun, and Purple Hibiscus

Issack

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Antony

2021

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“…Even as late as Chapter 18, Ugwu’s response to voices raised in political argument within the house is to stop listening and go outside, where he first sees the young woman whom he will come to love (though also, more ominously, children playing at being soldiers); and though he has said to himself earlier that he needs to learn and to read – to an extent that he becomes a teacher of small children himself during the war – at only a single point do we actually hear the Ugwu within the narrative express a view of his own on the war. Expulsion from the domestic space will be required, as we shall see, to authorize Ugwu’s writing of the Book; at the same time it is his domestication within that space that constitutes him as a subject in what Susan Andrade (2011) might call “the nation writ small” to begin with.…”

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Domesticating the subaltern in the global novel in English

Erwin

2012

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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This essay analyses prizewinning postcolonial novels in English from the last two decades that render labourers legible by enfolding them in the domestic novels still dominant in metropolitan reading practices. The figures of Hassan in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Triton in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef, Velutha in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and Ugwu in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, though they initially enter the novels as labourers, are ultimately transformed through their roles in these domestic novels into exceptional figures who transcend class. At the same time, the novels address forms of violence that would seem to challenge the domestic novel's representational capacities. These novels then perform a double movement, gesturing toward class as a category in their inclusion of these domestic labourers, only to evacuate that category in rewriting the violence they portray as answerable by the personal relationships and identitarian transformations that constitute the genre's meanings. That the novels thus raise questions of class and subalternity -of relations of domination and subordination -and then translate those relations into other categories posited as primary bearers of textual and social meaning renders the category of class itself subaltern in these texts.

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“…heaviest, and they are followed by a third generation that consists of the likes of Benjamin Kwakye, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Vonani Bila, and others who have become prominent since the onset of the 2000s. Coming of age at the turn of the millennium, a number of these third-generation writers are often urban and cosmopolitan in outlook and have broadened the scope of their narratives to cover issues such as gender, sex, and race and the intersectional praxes of these, while often revising the concerns of earlier writers within the postcolonial African canon (Selasie, 2005;Andrade, 2011).…”

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Deconstructing the terrible gift of postcolonial African lives: An intertextual reading of Martin Egblewogbe’s Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God & Other Stories.

Adika¹

2021

Legon J. Hum.

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This paper situates Martin Egblewogbe’s short story collection Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God & Other Stories (2008) within intertextual discourses as they relate to the tri-generational canon of Ghanaian, and by extension, African literature. It argues against the easy temptation of reading the work via uncontextualized metaphysical or existentialist paradigms, or what Wole Soyinka (1976) refers to as the undifferentiated mono-lenses of “universal humanoid abstractions,” and instead situates it within the Ghanaian tradition by pointing out the collection’s filiation to the specific trope of madness-as-a subversive-performance-of-resilience against the oppressive socio-political status quo in that tradition. The paper excavates the works of first generation postcolonial Ghanaian authors such as Armah, Awoonor and Aidoo, and reads Egblewogbe’s relatively recent debut oeuvre against them in a grounded epistemic manoeuvre that fractures assumptions about the work’s uniqueness and places it in on-going trans-generational dialogic exchanges about how to negotiate the fractious crucible that is postcolonial Ghanaian experience.

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Adichie's Genealogies: National and Feminine Novels

Cited by 32 publications

References 7 publications

Identity Construction in Adichies two texts Half of a Yellow Sun, and Purple Hibiscus

Identity Construction in Adichies two texts Half of a Yellow Sun, and Purple Hibiscus

Domesticating the subaltern in the global novel in English

Deconstructing the terrible gift of postcolonial African lives: An intertextual reading of Martin Egblewogbe’s Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God & Other Stories.

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