Purple hibiscus : a novel by / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

Purple hibiscus : a novel / by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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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.…”

Trauma and transformation in African literature : writing wrongs / J. Roger Kurtz. by Kurtz, John Roger

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Trauma Theory, Going Global -- Part I: Trauma and African Literature -- 1 Trauma, the Thorn in the Spirit -- 2 Conceptual Problems in Trauma -- 3 Traumatomimesis and the Moral Imagination -- 4 Trauma and the African Moral Imagination -- Part II: Case Studies -- 5 A State of Perpetual Emergency: Ngugi Wa Thiongo's A Grain of Wheat -- 6 Trauma Tropes in a Nigerian Context: Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus…”
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Adaptation and cultural appropriation : literature, film, and the arts / edited by Pascal Nicklas and Oliver Lindner.

Table of Contents: “…Derek Walcott's Variations of Great Traditions -- Appropriating Achebe: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and "The Headstrong Historian" -- Revisiting Bolton: Transcultural Adaptation and Regional Identity in Ayub Khan-Din's Rafta, Rafta.…”
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Transatlantic feminisms : women and gender studies in Africa and the diaspora / edited by Cheryl R. Rodriguez, Dzodzi Tsikata, and Akosua Adomako Ampofo.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- I: Feminist Politics and the Politics of "Black" Feminisms -- Chapter One: Feminist Organizing, Electoral Representation, and Transformation in Africa -- Chapter Two: This Bridge Called the Internet -- Chapter Three: Fighting Shirley Chisholm -- Chapter Four: Academics and Praxis -- Chapter Five: Experiences in Transformative Feminist Movement Building at the Grassroots Level in Tanzania -- II: Women and the Multi-Layered Textures of Representation -- Chapter Six: Mucamas and Mulatas -- Chapter Seven: Feminist Perspectives in Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta -- Chapter Eight: Black Women and U.S. …”
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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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Tradition and Change in Contemporary West and East African Fiction. by Okuyade, Ogaga

Table of Contents: “…Affect in Representations of Children''s Experiences of Mass Violence Uwem Akpan''s Say You're One of Them and Goretti Kyomuhendo''s Secrets no More Mirror Writing, Social Realism, and the Interrogation of the Postcolonial Nation Alobwed''Epie''s The Death Certificate and The Day God Blinked; Transnationalism and the Agenda of African Literature in a Digital Age; Postcolonial Encounters Re-Envisioned Kojo Laing''s Woman of the Aeroplanes as Trickster Narrative; Countries of the Mind Space-Time Chronotopes in Adichie''s Purple Hibiscus.…”
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