Image of History and ideology in Chimamanda Adichie’s fiction

Arts, Media and Popular Culture

History and ideology in Chimamanda Adichie’s fiction

Download PDF

The colonial experience of the African and the imposition of colonial values on the African worldview are factors that indeed had provided the impetus and even motivation for much of the literary production in the continent. This essay traces specifically the issue of religious ideology/conflict from Achebe through Ngugi to Adichie. It attempts to show that in the successful execution of her goals and objectives in Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Adichie mounts the rostrum reserved for the African masters of the art. In this novel, she, in addition to other things, shows the wickedness perpetrated by overzealous African converts who often demand and expect (from their dependants) the degree of self-negation which Soyinka has identified as cultural hostility. The essay further posits that in the celebration of Nigerian history, even when ‘temporarily dislocated’, as well as our legitimate niche in the Commonwealth of Nations, as she has done in Half of a Yellow Sun, Adichie educates non-Africans and alienated Africans about the indomitable African spirit.

Detail Information
Publication Information
: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde.,
Number of Pages
14
ISBN
-
Language
English
ISSN
-
Subject(s)
Religion
Colonialism
Chimamanda Adichie
chauvinism
cultural traditions
social values
Description
-
Citation
Other Information
Type
Article
Part Of Series
-
DOI Identifier
https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v48i1.63824
Related Publications

No Related Publications available

Comments