Narrating a new nationalism: Rehistoricization and political apologia in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's<i>Half of a Yellow Sun</i>

Akpome, Aghogho

doi:10.1080/10131752.2013.783387

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“…Different historical events that happened outside Nigeria provide a useful context for understanding Adichie's historicization, through the creative interplay of fact and fiction so that she is able to present the real Nigerian narrations. The realism of Adichie's representation is enhanced through the sustained use of paratexts from news broadcasts (Akpome, 2013). Adichie through her characters in Half of a Yellow Sun depicts producing and reproducing African narrative of suffering, discrimination, racism, misrepresentation and history writing and re-writing as a continuing process.…”

Section: Adichie's Standpoint: Representation Of African Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Rewriting The Construction of Blackness in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Selected Works

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This study investigates selected literary works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from a new historicist point of view. It examines the concept of history as being treated and narrated in a subjectiveas opposed to objectivemanner by the white historians. The study correspondingly aims at investigating Adichie's selected works that depict the pathway of return to history. In the light of these notional views, it provides a critical analysis to revisit, reshape and rewrite the pre-presumptive stands of racialized ideologies and cultures. Furthermore, it questions the position of postmodern blackness, especially of black women. To do so, the study examines literary depictions of the characters in Adichie's works through historical roles and features given to them in the texts, discussing the ways in which the selected novels reflect a variety of experiences that the literary narrators wish to convey to the reader.

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Section: Adichie's Standpoint: Representation Of African Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%