Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: A Postcolonial Inquiry
Keywords:
Bildungsroman, Domination, Nigeria, Patriarchy, PostcolonialityAbstract
The Purple Hibiscus (2013) is the debut novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, that was received with critical acclaim in literary circles all around the world. It is a bildungsroman novel set in the political context of a military coup in 1980’s Nigeria. The present paper attempts to examines how the writer portrayed, through the medium of English, the destructive influences of post-colonialism to present to the world the awareness towards the traditions of Africa and its legacy that remained buried beneath the land of colonized Nigeria. For a thorough analysis of the selected text the qualitative research paradigm, guided by thematic textual analysis, has been used. The results show that Purple Hibiscus, as a post colonial text, critiques the associated violence of the colonial forces, religion, and patriarchal domination.
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