Journeying out of silenced familial spaces in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus

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dc.contributor.authorOuma, Chrispher Ernest Werimo
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-09T11:47:55Z
dc.date.available2008-12-09T11:47:55Z
dc.date.issued2008-12-09T11:47:55Z
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the silencing of familial spaces in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. It probes into how the familial space is invested with religiosity: how ritual and norm structure and silence familial spaces and how transcendence from these spaces can be achieved through elements of laughter, music and sexuality. The study uses post-colonial theories, concepts of familial ideology and familial theory to read the text. The introductory chapter provides a politico-historical background of the text, then a literary historiography of how the familial trope has been used in African literature with special focus on Achebe. The chapter also outlines the theoretical framework of the study while anticipating the issues to be dealt with. Chapter two focuses on how the familial space is invested with religious rituals and how these silence the familial space. Chapter three examines how augmentation out of the silenced familial spaces works through elements of laughter, sexuality and music. Chapter four investigates the family as a portrait of the state and most significantly how these two institutions are portrayed to be in a complex relationship. The study’s conclusion is that the family can be used as an alternative site for discourses of marginality and can give a nuanced critique of the postcolony.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/5879
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectfamilial spaceen
dc.subjectPurple Hibiscusen
dc.subjectreligious ritualsen
dc.subjectAfrican literatureen
dc.subjectChimamanda Ngozi Adichieen
dc.titleJourneying out of silenced familial spaces in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscusen
dc.typeThesisen
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