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A companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Ernest Emenyo̲nu

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Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps, introduced new motifs and narrative varieties which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your Neck--Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a preeminent story-teller. Americanah (2013), with ingenuous craftsmanship addresses the sensitive themes of passionate love, independence, freedom and moral responsibility with extravagant and versatile narrative innovations. Through her writings, she has made herself relevant to people of all ages--across racial and linguistic boundaries. Her talks, blogs, musings on social media, essays and commentaries, workshop-mentoring for budding young writers, lecture circuit discourses, all enrich her imaginative creativity as they expand and define her mission as a writer. "We Should All be Feminists" she proclaimed in an essay, giving feminism a "tweak and twist" and suggesting new outlooks in literary theory. Her contributions to African, Diasporic and World literatures deserve serious analyses, commentaries and interpretations, and this Companion to her work critically examines her creative outputs from her art and ideology, from feminism to war, to matters of myth and perception, and the challenges of multicultural existence and complex human identities.

Genres

  • Feminist fiction
  • Women authors
  • African American authors
  • American fiction
  • History and criticism
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Nigerian fiction
  • Nigerian literature
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About the author

  • Ernest Emenyo̲nu

    born 1939

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Editions

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    Boydell & Brewer, Limited, James Currey

    2020

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    Boydell & Brewer, Limited

    2017

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    Boydell & Brewer, Limited

    2017

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    2017