Some reflections on selected themes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction and her feminist manifesto
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چکیده
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction, namely, Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck generally reflects an intersection black women’s experiences in variety contexts. In motifs that feature the domain identity politics gender discourse are brought into critical focus. Among these appraisals African names, stereotyping complexions, racialisations hair other themes such as commodification female body. aspects thematised key features therefore worth considering discourse. this article, Dear Ijeawele or A Feminist Manifesto Fifteen Suggestions is relied upon summary her authorial vision, ideology feminist outlook. This article appreciates how Adichie seeks to reposition postcolonial hermeneutics on by bringing light some challenges faced women fiction. fiction appraised for its aim widen contemporary critique-scape racial, issues.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Literator: Journal of literary criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2219-8237', '0258-2279']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v43i1.1723