Power Dynamics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Writings

Abstract

The women writers in West Africa worked under many literary and social disabilities.  The African women writes are considered more as late comers in the field of writing. The third generation witnesses the challenges of feminist critics where Nigerian feminists like Chikwenye, Okonjo struggled to include women writings in the cannon where only male writes works who write on male characters for male audience were canonized.  They have left no trace of women’s writings where they would have faced gender specific obstacles.  Among women writers Adichie is one of the important novelists. “Madeleine Hron’s “Ora na-azu nwa The Figure of the Child in Third-Generation Nigerian Novels proposes a way of the western critical reductionism by exploring the hybrid spaces of childhood in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus” Adichie’s realistic writing style is a product of third generation novelist’s way of writing Adichie is the fast growing writer who has written short stories,essays,blogs and  four great novels Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of the Yellow Sun (2006)  Americana and Dream Count (2025)Half of a Yellow Sun is an Orange Prize winning novel which won the prize for the portrayal of the Biafran war. Her other short story collection, The Thing around Your neck (2009) is also famous.  She has received numbers of awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for fiction (2007). Adichie had already published a collection of poems, Decisions (1997).Adichie’s works deals with concepts like Feminism, Afrofuturism and Cultural Geography.