Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Feminist Manifesto as a Compilation of Her Major Topics
Her award-winning novels and thought-provoking TED talks propelled the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie into the public consciousness and sparked a worldwide discourse about feminism in the late 2010s. Adichie uses her work to empower women all around the world to dismantle gender constr...
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| Language: | deu |
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Scientia Publishing House
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica |
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| Online Access: | https://acta.sapientia.ro/content/docs/4-872010.pdf |
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| Summary: | Her award-winning novels and thought-provoking TED talks
propelled the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie into the public
consciousness and sparked a worldwide discourse about feminism in the
late 2010s. Adichie uses her work to empower women all around the world
to dismantle gender constructs, stereotypes, and sexualities designed to
enslave women in society. Several researchers have successfully construed
common motifs in her fiction. This paper draws on recent studies undertaken
by Moffat Sebola, who affirms that Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist
Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017) is not only a list of proposals; with
closer examination, the manifesto reveals the recurring themes throughout
Adichie’s writing. Furthermore, for analytical convenience, Moffat Sebola
(2022) selects only seven of Adichie’s fifteen suggestions, identifies the
elements that reflect her authorial perspective, and utilizes them as filters
in analysing the author’s novels. The main objective of this study has been
the presentation of the elements of Adichie’s fiction in all fifteen manifesto
statements. In order to achieve this objective, themes of womanhood,
femininity, love, history, culture, gender equality, and otherness are
discussed in separate sections with examples from her novels. The first
section of the paper provides a brief overview of African feminist fiction
within which the work of this third-generation Nigerian writer is embedded. |
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| ISSN: | 2067-5151 2068-2956 |