Sökning: "Adichie"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 uppsatser innehållade ordet Adichie.

  1. 1. African Women and Storytelling : Unveiling the Power of Narrative to Shape Collective Imaginary

    Master-uppsats,

    Författare :Clelia Vegezzi; [2023]
    Nyckelord :African Women; Women; Black Women; Storytelling; stories; Collective Imaginaries; Characters; Novels; INGOs; Noviolet Bulawayo; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;

    Sammanfattning : During my eight years of work in the communication department of an NGO based in Kampala I have undetaken several workshops organized by istitutional donors, such as USAID, on how to write what the aid sector calls stories of change.  Puzzled by the information and skills obtained in such context and the stories I have encounter and wrote during my job from one side, and on the other side acknowledging how novels helped me to navigate my feeling of disorientation while living and experiencing the Ugandan context; I have decided to embark in this research to better understand where the stories produced by INGOs and the contemporary literature differentiate. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Educated Women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun : Possibilities, Choices or Obligations?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Författare :Charlotte Gernandt; [2023]
    Nyckelord :English literature; gender;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  4. 3. Subalternity and Insubordination : A Postcolonial Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

    M1-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Karin Rosenqvist; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Post-colonialism; Nigeria; feminism; Adichie; subaltern;

    Sammanfattning : In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah the young female protagonist is unexpectedly thrown into a life of marginalisation when she migrates from Nigeria to the American East coast. Having grown up in Nigeria her skin colour has neither been an issue nor of consideration to her, but it soon becomes apparent that elsewhere her complexion evokes expectations and functions as a breeding ground for prejudice. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Kambili’s Journey to Dignity, and Self-empowerment : A Womanist Approach to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

    Magister-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Nicky Nahida Lindecrantz; [2022]
    Nyckelord :change; Christianity; dignity; identity; Igbo tradition; interaction; liberal- and radical feminism; mimicry; Nigeria; patriarchal violence; postcolonialism; self-empowerment; womanism;

    Sammanfattning : Using womanist theory as a theoretical framework, this study has analyzed identity formation and self-empowerment. Adichie is considered a feminist writer, but her ideals and ideas are very different from Western ideals and aim to survive and challenge patriarchal culture. LÄS MER

  7. 5. THE PERKS OF BEING ANAFRICAN WOMAN IN ADICHIE’S THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Makda Yoseph Berhie; [2021-02-02]
    Nyckelord :Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Imitation;

    Sammanfattning : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s contemporary literary works have prominently engaged with diasporic experiences, migration, and gender disparity,among other issues that fit under the umbrella of postcolonial literature. This essay aims to further explorethe representation of ‘the African woman’in three stories found in Adichie’s story collectionThe Thing Around Your Neck,namely ‘Imitation’, ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’, and ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’. LÄS MER