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Racial Identification and Diasporic consciousness in "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Author	: Elisabeth Janzen
Publisher	: GRIN Verlag
Release Date	: 2022-06-02
ISBN 10	: 9783346654625
Pages	: 28 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (546 users)

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Download or read book Racial Identification and Diasporic consciousness in "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie written by Elisabeth Janzen and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a representative Afropolitan migration novel that depicts the still prevalent institutional and everyday racism underlying and deeply embedded in American society. In the following, I will therefore assess to what extent racism and discrimination affect the character Ifemelu and the process of her Afropolitan identity formation after migrating to the US and back to Nigeria again. The crucial underlying question is whether the US could live up to its own ideals as they always preached equality and freedom for every American citizen or whether they fail to set an international example for equality for all.

Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers

Author	: Jean Wyatt
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2020-01-28
ISBN 10	: 9780429581359
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (813 users)

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Download or read book Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers written by Jean Wyatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ethical thinking about race in a reader. Taken together, the essays also demonstrate that black women writers from both sides of the Atlantic borrow formal structures and literary techniques from one another to describe the workings of structural racism in the daily lives of black subjects and to provoke readers to think anew about race. Narratology has only recently begun to use race as a category of narrative theory. This collection seeks both to show the ethical effects of narrative form on individual readers and to foster reconceptualizations of narrative theory that account for the workings of race within literature and culture.

The Black Family and Society

Author	: Mark Hulliung
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-09-08
ISBN 10	: 9781351305228
Pages	: 174 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (52 users)

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Download or read book The Black Family and Society written by Mark Hulliung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the black family in the United States and the social forces and issues that affect it, including education, healthcare, racism, poverty, and politics. It examines the effects of these social forces on individuals as well as families. Contributions are varied. "A Biscuit for a Letter" examines education in the antebellum South. "Black Intellectuals on Trial" and "Africans' Perspectives on Race in the US" both analyse the role of race and racism in America. "Feminization of Poverty and the Black Family" illustrates the double burden of race and gender borne by black women. "It's Gotta Be Some Drama!" analyses the televised depiction of black colleges and universities. "African-centred Research Frameworks" studies the importance of cultural awareness in academia. "Work to Be Done" recounts the activism of black women in the Democratic Party. This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to study of the black family in the United States, taking into account the forces of the larger society that influence it. The Black Family and Society is the most recent volume in Transaction's Africana Studies series.

A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Author	: Ernest N. Emenyonu
Publisher	: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date	: 2017
ISBN 10	: 9781847011626
Pages	: 314 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (116 users)

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Download or read book A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie written by Ernest N. Emenyonu and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontcover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Narrating the Past: Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- 2. Deconstructing Binary Oppositions of Gender in Purple Hibiscus: A Review of Religious/Traditional Superiority & Silence -- 3. Adichie & the West African Voice: Women & Power in Purple Hibiscus -- 4. Reconstructing Motherhood: A Mutative Reality in Purple Hibiscus -- 5. Ritualized Abuse in Purple Hibiscus -- 6. Dining Room & Kitchen: Food-Related Spaces & their Interfaces with the Female Body in Purple Hibiscus -- 7. The Paradox of Vulnerability: The Child Voice in Purple Hibiscus -- 8. 'Fragile Negotiations': Olanna's Melancholia in Half of a Yellow Sun -- 9. The Biafran War & the Evolution of Domestic Space in Half of a Yellow Sun -- 10. Corruption in Post-Independence Politics: Half of a Yellow Sun as a Reflection of A Man of the People -- 11. Contrasting Gender Roles in Male-Crafted Fiction with Half of a Yellow Sun -- 12. 'A Kind of Paradise': Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Claim to Agency, Responsibility & Writing -- 13. Dislocation, Cultural Memory & Transcultural Identity in Select Stories from The Thing Around Your Neck -- 14. 'Reverse Appropriations' & Transplantation in Americanah -- 15. Revisiting Double Consciousness & Relocating the Self in Americanah -- 16. Adichie's Americanah: A Migrant Bildungsroman -- 17. 'Hairitage' Matters: Transitioning & the Third Wave Hair Movement in 'Hair', 'Imitation' & Americanah -- Appendix: The Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Index

Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Author	: Daria Tunca
Publisher	: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date	: 2020-08-17
ISBN 10	: 9781496829283
Pages	: 236 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (292 users)

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Download or read book Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie written by Daria Tunca and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: “I have things to say and I’ll say them.” Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the first collection of interviews with the writer. Covering fifteen years of conversations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie’s first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), and end in late 2018, by which time Adichie had become one of the most prominent figures on the international literary scene. As both scholars and passionate readers of the author’s work are bound to find out, the opinions shared by Adichie in interviews over the years coalesce into a fascinating portrait that presents both abiding features and gradual transformations. Reflecting the political and emotional scope of Adichie’s work, the conversations contained in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including colonialism, race, immigration, and feminism. Collectively, these interviews testify both to the author’s ardent wish to strive for a more just and equal world, and to her deep interest in exploring our common humanity. As Adichie says in her 2009 interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro: “When people call me a novelist, I say, well, yes. I really think of myself as a storyteller.” This book invites Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to tell her own literary story.

GLOBALISATION AND TRANSITIONAL IDEOLOGIES

Author	: Ernest L. VEYU
Publisher	: Ken Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2021-11-22
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book GLOBALISATION AND TRANSITIONAL IDEOLOGIES written by Ernest L. VEYU and published by Ken Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume define the departure from the margin to the centre, assess emerging literatures and shifting language concerns, dismantle the hegemony of colonial English, propose alternatives to the ‘imperialism’ that underlies globalisation, and question hegemonic assumptions in language and literature.

New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers

Author	: LaToya Jefferson-James
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2022-03-03
ISBN 10	: 9781793606716
Pages	: 343 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (67 users)

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Download or read book New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers written by LaToya Jefferson-James and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers spans the contemporary era into the AfroFuture. It begins with Ann Petry, who has been forcibly mashed into masculinized critical paradigms, and ends by introducing audiences to Black speculative and Science Fiction writers.

Americanah

Author	: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2015-06-25
ISBN 10	: 359618598X
Pages	: 608 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book Americanah written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Black History

Author	: Dominique Haensell
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date	: 2021-10-04
ISBN 10	: 9783110722147
Pages	: 252 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (221 users)

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Download or read book Making Black History written by Dominique Haensell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Holding the World Together

Author	: Nwando Achebe
Publisher	: University of Wisconsin Press
Release Date	: 2019-04-16
ISBN 10	: 9780299321109
Pages	: 393 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (211 users)

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Download or read book Holding the World Together written by Nwando Achebe and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney

Translation and Circulation of Migration Literature

Author	: Stephanie Schwerter
Publisher	: Frank & Timme GmbH
Release Date	: 2022-07-22
ISBN 10	: 9783732908240
Pages	: 309 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (82 users)

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Download or read book Translation and Circulation of Migration Literature written by Stephanie Schwerter and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the field of Translation Studies no book-length work in English has yet been dedicated to the translation and circulation of migration literature. The authors of this volume seek to contribute to filling this gap through a detailed study of texts belonging to a variety of literary genres and engaging with the phenomenon of migration in different parts of the world. Not only will the challenges met by translators be discussed, but the different ways in which the translated texts travel from one cultural sphere to another will also be explored. The focus lies on the themes “migration and politics”, “migration and society”, as well as “the experience of migration in words, music and images”.

Women Writers of the New African Diaspora

Author	: Pauline Ada Uwakweh
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2022-12-30
ISBN 10	: 9781000824414
Pages	: 250 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (244 users)

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Download or read book Women Writers of the New African Diaspora written by Pauline Ada Uwakweh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book inspires critical readings of these writers’ works by revealing emerging trends in women’s literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the importance of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging, and taken as a whole, it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies, who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends, approaches to transnational literature, and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear.

AQA English Language and Literature: A Level and AS

Author	: Ruth Doyle
Publisher	: Oxford University Press - Children
Release Date	: 2015-07-30
ISBN 10	: 9780198374589
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (745 users)

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Download or read book AQA English Language and Literature: A Level and AS written by Ruth Doyle and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A Level English Language and Literature specification. Structured and written to develop the skills on which students will be assessed in the exams and coursework, students of all abilities, through the source texts, book features and approach, will be able to make clear progress. The book offers students the opportunity to build on skills acquired at GCSE, extending them into their A Level course, ensuring that they are fully prepared for the assessment requirements of the qualifications and that students become successful, independent all-round learners. Building on years of development work on earlier editions, this brand new book includes the latest thinking and research, thus maintaining relevance and instilling confidence. Whether students are taking AS or A Level AQA English Language and Literature, this resource offers guidance and activities to help all students achieve their potential.

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels

Author	: Lena Mattheis
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2021-04-20
ISBN 10	: 9783030666873
Pages	: 251 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (668 users)

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Download or read book Translocality in Contemporary City Novels written by Lena Mattheis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two novels—by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo—set in a total of ninety-seven cities. Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the world narratable and turn them into relatable stories: simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches, and techniques from a variety of research fields—including narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and postcolonial perspectives—Mattheis develops a set of cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.

Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions

Author	: Cheryl Sterling
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2021-09-30
ISBN 10	: 9781000461046
Pages	: 250 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (61 users)

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Download or read book Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions written by Cheryl Sterling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the margins of gender and race hierarchies. The book demonstrates how in discourse and theory Africana women are the centers of their own knowledge production and agency, as the artists and their characters point the way forward. Their multi-perspectivism leads to avenues of selective mutuality and influence to generate transformative creative work, scholarship, and practices. Writers included are Sylvia Wynter, Edwidge Danticat, Amanda Smith, Werewere Liking, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Sefi Atta, NoViolet Bulawayo, Nnedi Okorafor, Mariama Bâ, Ama Ata Aidoo, Igiaba Scego, Léonara Miano, Gisèle Hountondji, Monique Ilboudo, and Maryse Condé, as well as filmmaker Kemi Adetiba. Over the course of the book, the contributors critically explore and update the canon on women in the African and African Diaspora literary sphere, highlighting their contributions to theoretical debates and providing substantive nuance to diasporic subjectivity. This book will be of interest to scholars of African and Africana Studies, comparative literature, and women and gender studies.

Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom

Author	: Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2022-04-06
ISBN 10	: 9783030941666
Pages	: 330 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (416 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses.

Migration, Trauma and Identity in Modern Indian Novels

Author	: Dr.Keshav Nath
Publisher	: Shanlax Publications
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: 9788119042227
Pages	: 81 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (422 users)

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Download or read book Migration, Trauma and Identity in Modern Indian Novels written by Dr.Keshav Nath and published by Shanlax Publications. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of research, personal stories, and clinical insights, this book offers a nuanced and compassionate look at the profound impact of trauma on identity. It invites readers to explore the complex ways in which trauma can influence our beliefs, behaviors, relationships, and sense of purpose, as well as the challenges and opportunities that arise when we seek to reclaim our sense of self after trauma. From the lasting impact of childhood abuse to the challenges of navigating cultural and societal expectations, the book offers a deep and insightful exploration of the many ways in which trauma can shape identity. It also offers practical tools and strategies for those who are grappling with the aftermath of trauma, and for those who support them. Ultimately, this book is a powerful exploration of the ways in which trauma can shape our identities and our lives. It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and a call to action for greater understanding and empathy.