Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

Half of a yellow sun / a Slate Films production ; a film by Biyi Bandele ; produced by Andrea Calderwood ; directed by Biyi Bandele. by Bandele-Thomas, Biyi, 1967-2022, Bandele-Thomas, Biyi, 1967-2022

“…Half of a yellow sun (Motion picture)…”
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African intellectuals and decolonization / edited by Nicholas M. Creary.

Table of Contents: “…Trauma and narrativity in Adichie's Half of a yellow sun : privileging Indigenous knowledge in writing the Biafran War /…”
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Is this a Culture of Trauma? An Interdisciplinary Perspective / edited by Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen and Michael Bick

Table of Contents: “…Post-Traumatic Responses in the War Narratives of Hanan al-Shaykh's The Story of Zahra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun /…”
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A new generation of African writers : migration, material culture & language / Brenda Cooper. by Cooper, Brenda

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Multiple worlds, material culture & language -- Virtual objects & parallel universes : Biyi Bandele's The street -- Everyday objects & translation : Leila Aboulela's The translator & coloured lights -- Possessions, science & power : Jamal Mahjoub's The carrier -- Words, things & subjectivity : Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian chronicles -- Breaking Gods & petals of purple : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus -- An abnormal ordinary : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun -- Conclusion : The rifle is not a penis.…”
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A new generation of African writers : migration, material culture & language / Brenda Cooper. by Cooper, Brenda

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Multiple worlds, material culture & language -- Virtual objects & parallel universes : Biyi Bandele's The street -- Everyday objects & translation : Leila Aboulela's The translator & coloured lights -- Possessions, science & power : Jamal Mahjoub's The carrier -- Words, things & subjectivity : Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian chronicles -- Breaking Gods & petals of purple : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus -- An abnormal ordinary : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun -- Conclusion : The rifle is not a penis.…”

The postcolonial historical novel : realism, allegory, and the representation of contested pasts / by Hamish Dalley, Learning Adviser, Australian National University, Australia. by Dalley, Hamish, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…The contemporary postcolonial historical novel: beyond anti-realism -- Allegorical realism: toward a poetics of the postcolonial historical novel -- Typification and frontier violence: Kate Grenville's The secret river -- The gender of settler realism: Fiona Kidman's The captive wife -- Deterritorializing allegorical realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea -- Aesthetics of absent causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun -- Spectres of civil war trauma: Chris Abani's Song for night -- Metafictional realism and the dialectic of allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish -- Conclusion: The historical novel, from postcolonial reconciliation to environmental crisis.…”
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TEDTalks : Chimamanda Adichie - The Danger of a Single Story / TED Conferences LLC.

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The New Violent Cartography : Geo-Analysis after the Aesthetic Turn.

Table of Contents: “…Chronotopicity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; 3. Beyond imaginative geographies: Critique, cooptation and imagination in the aftermath of the War on Terror; Part II: Warring bodies and bodies politic; 4. …”
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African women under fire : literary discourses in war and conflict / edited by Pauline Ada Uwakweh.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: exploring African women and the war experience: a critical update / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- At the center, taking charge: disruptive discourse and female agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a yellow sun / by Jessie Sagawa -- An attempt at inclusion: reading the war theme in black Zimbabwean women texts / by Tendai Mangena -- The female body as locus for national trauma in the fiction of Yvonne Vera / by Melissa R. …”
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Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : 1958-2008 / edited by David Whittaker.

Table of Contents: “…III THINGS FALL APART AND ITS LITERARY HERITAGE5 Daughters of Sentiment, Genealogies, and Conversations Between Things Fall Apart and Purple Hibiscus; 6 The Novelist as Teacher: Things Fall Apart and the Hauntology of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; 7 Re-Inventing Africa: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la Fantasia; IV THINGS FALL APART IN OTHER CONTEXTS; 8 Teaching Things Fall Apart in Texas; 9 First and Second Glances: Working-Class Scottish Readers and Things Fall Apart; 10 Things Fall Apart: Culture, Anthropology, and Literature.…”
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Madness in black women's diasporic fictions : aesthetics of resistance / Caroline A. Brown, Johanna X.K. Garvey, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Dark Swoops: Trauma and Madness in Half of a Yellow Sun -- Seretha D. Williams Chapter 7. 'We Know People By Their Stories': Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat's Krik? …”
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Tradition and Change in Contemporary West and East African Fiction. by Okuyade, Ogaga

Table of Contents: “…Writing Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s ''''The Headstrong Historian'''' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apar tNegotiation of Socio-Ethnic Spaces Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s Half of a Yellow Sun as a Testimonio of African National and Ethnic Identity; Strangers in/to the World The Unhomely in Chris Abani''s GraceLand; Maik Nwosu''s Invisible Chapter sInvestigating Psychological Fragmentation in Nigerian Literature; The Global Underground and the Illegitimate Diasporas in Chika Unigwe''s On Black Sisters'' Street.…”
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