Chapter – 3(Analyses of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Works)
Before analysing deeper into the concern studies, Adichie addressed on the Danger of the Single Story at the TED Talk on October 2009 is very important in understanding her views on colonialism and the misconception of Africa or for that matter Non-West by the West. Her talk in a way sums up the entire discourse of stereotype and representation today. Given below are some of the excerpts from the talk:
``...So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become...’’
Numerous texts dealing with the so called Orient as the Said’s definition of Orientalism would states sprout in with time and its witness …show more content…
Is it prevalent today? What will happen if our understanding of another culture comes from the reading of numerous stories rather than the single story? It questions the entire discourse of the Orient and the Occident, stereotype, representation etc. As a result of which stories matter, many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. `` Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity’’ (Adichie) Armed with a reading of the text, complexities, histories and questions concerning Postcolonial studies , as well as the conceptual frameworks that govern our approach to the selected texts, this chapter will tackle with the application of those theories to the analyses of Adichie’s fictional works. I will discuss two main issues born out of the area of concern of literary Postcolonial studies: hybridity, language; and then confer about the general aspects of the selected works that are relevant study for the research.
The researcher will look at the synopses of both the primary and secondary text used for the study. The analysis of it will enable the reader unfamiliar with the author’s works to follow with the …show more content…
It is narrated with alternating characters in focus including the less obvious characters such as Ugwu, a house boy. The story opens in a post-independence Nigeria where the beautiful and London-educated Olanna and her twin sister Kainene are based with their affluent parents. After she return from London, Olanna moves to Nsukka, a small university town in the south eastern part of the country where she teaches and lives with her Mathematics professor lover, Odenigbo and Ugwu, his houseboy. Kainene also moves into the southeast region to handle some of her father’s businesses with Richard, the localized Englishman who is a failed writer and a lover of Kainene. As the civil war erupts and the state of Biafra is born in the minds of fighters and few other outside states that officially recognize it, the Southeastern region fiercely fights to seperate from the larger state of Nigeria. Olanna and Kainene’s stay in the region to make their contributions to help the war-torn Biafra. All the while as the war is going on and bomb shells are raining on them, each of these characters manage to suffer heartbreaks and little joys in their own private lives irrespective of war, which is the focal point of the novel: to show that life goes on despite how discompose a nation’s politics is. Therefore, Odenigbo and Olannafail to conceive a child in a suspicious connection to his mother possibly
Before analysing deeper into the concern studies, Adichie addressed on the Danger of the Single Story at the TED Talk on October 2009 is very important in understanding her views on colonialism and the misconception of Africa or for that matter Non-West by the West. Her talk in a way sums up the entire discourse of stereotype and representation today. Given below are some of the excerpts from the talk:
``...So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become...’’
Numerous texts dealing with the so called Orient as the Said’s definition of Orientalism would states sprout in with time and its witness …show more content…
Is it prevalent today? What will happen if our understanding of another culture comes from the reading of numerous stories rather than the single story? It questions the entire discourse of the Orient and the Occident, stereotype, representation etc. As a result of which stories matter, many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. `` Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity’’ (Adichie) Armed with a reading of the text, complexities, histories and questions concerning Postcolonial studies , as well as the conceptual frameworks that govern our approach to the selected texts, this chapter will tackle with the application of those theories to the analyses of Adichie’s fictional works. I will discuss two main issues born out of the area of concern of literary Postcolonial studies: hybridity, language; and then confer about the general aspects of the selected works that are relevant study for the research.
The researcher will look at the synopses of both the primary and secondary text used for the study. The analysis of it will enable the reader unfamiliar with the author’s works to follow with the …show more content…
It is narrated with alternating characters in focus including the less obvious characters such as Ugwu, a house boy. The story opens in a post-independence Nigeria where the beautiful and London-educated Olanna and her twin sister Kainene are based with their affluent parents. After she return from London, Olanna moves to Nsukka, a small university town in the south eastern part of the country where she teaches and lives with her Mathematics professor lover, Odenigbo and Ugwu, his houseboy. Kainene also moves into the southeast region to handle some of her father’s businesses with Richard, the localized Englishman who is a failed writer and a lover of Kainene. As the civil war erupts and the state of Biafra is born in the minds of fighters and few other outside states that officially recognize it, the Southeastern region fiercely fights to seperate from the larger state of Nigeria. Olanna and Kainene’s stay in the region to make their contributions to help the war-torn Biafra. All the while as the war is going on and bomb shells are raining on them, each of these characters manage to suffer heartbreaks and little joys in their own private lives irrespective of war, which is the focal point of the novel: to show that life goes on despite how discompose a nation’s politics is. Therefore, Odenigbo and Olannafail to conceive a child in a suspicious connection to his mother possibly