Sökning: "Half a Yellow Sun"
Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Half a Yellow Sun.
1. What to teach or how to teach? : A survey on the consequences a less detail-controlled curriculum has on English teachers´ choice of English-language literature
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : This essay aims to examine which consequences a less-detail controlled curriculum has on English teachers’ choice of English-language literature. With support from the literature review, this essay argues that an unofficial, tacit school canon of English-language literature mainly composed of ten literary works seems to have been established in Swedish upper-secondary schools, despite the Swedish National Curriculum not naming specific literary works educators in Sweden are required to use in their teaching. LÄS MER
2. An Intentionalist Approach to the Question of the White Outsider’s Authorial Rights in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaSammanfattning : This thesis explores how Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Mister Pip (2006) by Lloyd Jones engage with the issue of the white male outsider’s activity of writing black people’s stories. It shows that Adichie counters the discourse that entitles the Western subject, Richard, to tell African stories by transferring his interpretive privilege to the African object, Ugwu. LÄS MER
3. “Fragments held in a fragile clasp”: The struggle for identity in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelskaSammanfattning : .... LÄS MER
4. The Biafra War: Cultural Memory in two novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinelo Okparanta
Master-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studierSammanfattning : Recently new novels about the Biafra war have appeared, proving the ongoing impact of the Nigerian civil war on writers’ interest, and the importance of memory in our life. For all these reasons, I decided to write the present thesis on how memory function in a literary work. LÄS MER
5. Kulturell identitet i En halv gul sol och Atlantens mage : En postkolonial läsning av två icke-västerländska romaner
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/LärarutbildningenSammanfattning : This study analyses two non-western novels used in the subject of Swedish in upper secondary school: Fatou Diomes The Belly of the Atlantic and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half a Yellow Sun. Looking at how the books female main character relate to Stuart Halls theory of cultural identity, I come to the conclusion that they somewhat differently relate to an essential ”authentic” self. LÄS MER
