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Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tunca, Daria
2020University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS, United States
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Keywords :
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; African literature; Nigeria; Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun; The Thing around Your Neck; Americanah; We Should All Be Feminists; Dear Ijweale, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions; interviews
Abstract :
[en] Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: “I have things to say and I’ll say them.” Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the first collection of interviews with the writer. Covering fifteen years of conversations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie’s first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), and end in late 2018, by which time Adichie had become one of the most prominent figures on the international literary scene. As both scholars and passionate readers of the author’s work are bound to find out, the opinions shared by Adichie in interviews over the years coalesce into a fascinating portrait that presents both abiding features and gradual transformations. Reflecting the political and emotional scope of Adichie’s work, the conversations contained in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including colonialism, race, immigration, and feminism. Collectively, these interviews testify both to the author’s ardent wish to strive for a more just and equal world, and to her deep interest in exploring our common humanity. As Adichie says in her 2009 interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro: “When people call me a novelist, I say, well, yes. I really think of myself as a storyteller. ” This book invites Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to tell her own literary story.
Research center :
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Editor :
Tunca, Daria  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Langue et linguistique anglaises modernes
Language :
English
Title :
Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publication date :
2020
Publisher :
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS, United States
ISBN/EAN :
9781496829276
Number of pages :
213
Collection name :
Literary Conversations Series
Peer reviewed :
Editorial reviewed
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