Ernest N. Emenyonu 
A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel,
Purple Hibiscus (2003). With
Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and
The Thing Around Your Neck – Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a preeminent story-teller.
Americanah (2013), with ingeniouscraftsmanship addresses the sensitive themes of passionate love, independence, freedom and moral responsibility with extravagant and versatile narrative innovations.


Through her writings, she has made herself relevant topeople of all ages – across racial and linguistic boundaries. Her talks, blogs, musings on social media, essays and commentaries, workshop-mentoring for budding young writers, lecture circuit discourses, all enrich her imaginativecreativity as they expand and define her mission as a writer. ‘We Should All be Feminists’ she proclaimed in an essay, giving feminism a ‘tweak and twist’ and suggesting new outlooks in literary theory.


Her contributionsto African, Diasporic and World literatures deserve serious analyses, commentaries and interpretations, and this Companion to her work critically examines her creative outputs from her art and ideology, from feminism to war, to matters of myth and perception, and the challenges of multicultural existence and complex human identities.


Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

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Introduction – Ernest N. Emenyonu

Narrating the Past: Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Louisa Uchum Egbunike

Deconstructing Binary Oppositions of Gender in
Purple Hibiscus: A Review of Religious/Traditional Superiority & Silence – Janet N. Ndula

Adichie & the West African Voice: A Focus on Women & Power in
Purple Hibiscus – Jane Duran

Reconstructing Motherhood: A Mutative Reality in
Purple Hibiscus – Iniobong I. Uko

Ritualized Abuse in
Purple Hibiscus – Edgar Fred Nabutanyi

Dining Room & Kitchen: Food-Related Spaces & their Interfaces with the Female Body in
Purple Hibiscus – Jessica C. Hume

The Paradox of Vulnerability: The Child Voice in
Purple Hibiscus – Oluwole Coker

‘Fragile Negotiations’: Olanna’s Melancholia in
Half of a Yellow Sun – Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo

The Biafran War & the Evolution of Domestic Space in
Half of a Yellow Sun – Janice Spleth

Corruption in Post-Independence Politics:
Half of a Yellow Sun as a Reflection of
A Man of the People – Chikwendu PK Anyanwu

Contrasting Gender Roles in Male-Crafted Fiction with
Half of a Yellow Sun – Carol Ijeoma Njoku

‘A Kind of Paradise’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Claim to Agency, Responsibility & Writing – Silvana Carotenuto

Dislocation, Cultural Memory & Transcultural Identity in Select Short Stories from
The Thing Around Your Neck – Maitrayee Misra

Dislocation, Cultural Memory & Transcultural Identity in Select Short Stories from
The Thing Around Your Neck – Manish Shrivastava

‘Reverse Appropriations’ & Transplantation in
Americanah – Gichingiri Ndigirigi

Revisiting Double Consciousness & Relocating the Self in
Americanah – Rose A. Sackeyfio

Americanah: A Migrant Bildungsroman – Mary Jane Androne

‘Hairitage’ Matters: Transitioning & the Third Wave Hair Movement in ‘Hair’, ‘Imitation’ &
Americanah – Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez

Appendix: The Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

关于作者

Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today, and editor of A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (James Currey, 2017). A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL) and the Nigerian Academy of Education (FNAE), Professor Emenyonu is a specialist in African Literature, he has taught African Literature at various institutions of higher learning in Nigeria and the United States, and has published extensively in the field. His publications include Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe Vols. 1 & 2, (2004), Goat Skin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature (2000). He is also the author of: A Good Shepherd: A Biography of the Most Rev. Benjamin C. Nwankiti (2003). His works of fiction include: Tales of Our Motherland (short stories) (1999) and a number of children’s books including Uzo: A Story of African Childhood (2011).Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today, and editor of A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (James Currey, 2017). A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL) and the Nigerian Academy of Education (FNAE), Professor Emenyonu is a specialist in African Literature, he has taught African Literature at various institutions of higher learning in Nigeria and the United States, and has published extensively in the field. His publications include Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe Vols. 1 & 2, (2004), Goat Skin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature (2000). He is also the author of A Good Shepherd: A Biography of the Most Rev. Benjamin C. Nwankiti (2003). His works of fiction include Tales of Our Motherland (short stories) (1999) and a number of children’s books including Uzo: A Story of African Childhood (2011).