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    Suggested Readings: Primary Sources

    Novels By Adichie

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. Americanah. Anchor Books, 2014.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. Half of a Yellow Sun. Anchor Books, 2007.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. Purple Hibiscus. Algonquin Books, 2012.

    Essays in Book Form

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions. Anchor

    Books, 2018.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. Notes On Grief. 1st ed., Knopf, 2021.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. We Should All be Feminists Anchor Books, 2015.

    Poems

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. Decisions. Minerva Press, 1997.

    Short Stories

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “A Private Experience: a short story by Chimamanda Ngozi

    Adichie.” The Guardian, The Guardian, 28 Dec. 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-short-story.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. The Thing Around Your Neck. Knopf Doubleday, 2010.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. Zikora: A Short Story. Amazon Original Stories, 2020.

    Other Essays

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “African “Authenticity” and the Biafran Experience.” Transition, vol. 99, 2008, p. 42-53. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/251543.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “Apollo.” The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2015, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/apollo.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Nigeria Is Murdering Its Citizens.” The New York Times, 21 Oct. 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/opinion/sunday/chimamanda-adichie-nigeria-protests.html.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “Hiding From Our Past” The New Yorker, 1 May 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/hiding-from-our-past.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “Chinua Achebe at 82: ‘We Remember Differently’” Premium Times, 23 Nov. 2012, https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/108378-chinua-achebe-at-82-we-remember-differently-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.html.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “Notes on Grief.” The New Yorker, 10 Sept. 2020, www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/notes-on-grief.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “‘Why can't a smart woman love fashion?’” Elle, 20 Feb. 2014, https://www.elle.com/fashion/personal-style/a12670/personal-essay-on-style-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/.

    Talks

    “The Danger of a Single Story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” YouTube, TED, 7 Oct. 2009, www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg.

    “We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston.” YouTube, TED, 12 Apr. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc.

    Suggested Readings: Secondary Sources

    Interviews

    Allardice, Lisa. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This Could Be the Beginning of a Revolution.’” The Guardian, 28 Apr. 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo

    “Award-Winning Author Adichie Explores Faith, Feminism at Georgetown Event.” Georgetown University, 17 Mar. 2017, www.georgetown.edu/news/award-winning-author-adichie-explores-faith-feminism-at-georgetown-event/

    Brockes, Emma. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘Can people please stop telling me feminism is hot?’” The Guardian, 4 March 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-stop-telling-me-feminism-hot.

    “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Identity, Feminism and Honest Conversations.” YouTube, 5 Oct. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_hsWRVR8_M

    “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Interview.” YouTube, uploaded by Channel 4 News, 11 Mar. 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1C7VXUfZQ.

    Dridi, Sonia. “The Interview - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Social Media, Donald Trump and Feminism.” France 24, France 24, 4 Feb. 2019, www.france24.com/en/20190204-interview-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-nigeria-us-author-social-media-trump-feminism.

    INBOUND. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | The INBOUND Studio.” YouTube, 22 Apr. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2OZMoAVo-0.

    “Interview: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Politics, Human Rights and Storytelling.” The Wire, https://thewire.in/culture/interview-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-politics-human-rights-and-storytelling

    Juompan-Yakam, Clarisse. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Colonialism, Politics and Pop Culture.” The Africa Report.com, The Africa Report, 8 May 2020, www.theafricareport.com/27060/nigerias-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-talks-colonialism-politics-and-pop-culture/.

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “‘Americanah’ Author Explains Learning To Be Black in the U.S.” NPR Fresh Air, Interview by Terry Gross, 2013, https://www.npr.org/2014/03/07/286903648/americanah-author-explains-learning-to-be-black-in-the-u-s

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “A Nigerian-’Americanah’ Novel About Love, Race and Hair.” NPR Weekend Edition, Interview by Scott Simon, 2013, https://www.npr.org/2013/05/11/181685674/a-nigerian-americanah-novel-about-love-race-and-hair

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “‘Dear Ijeawele’ & Raising a Child to Be a Feminist.” YouTube, uploaded by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, 9 June 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czogWQ34X1Y&feature=emb_title

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “Epidemic of male entitlement towards female bodies- Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi.” YouTube, uploaded by United Nations, 9 June 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR-bC6UOgc

    Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. “Writer Chimamanda Adichie discusses her career.” BBC, Interview by Razia Iqbal, https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20130614-telling-a-new-story-of-africa

    Marchese, David. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on What It Means to Be a ‘Feminist Icon.’” Vulture, Vulture, 9 July 2018, www.vulture.com/2018/07/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-in-conversation.html.

    Politicsprose. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘Dear Ijeawele’ (with Audie Cornish).” YouTube, YouTube, 24 Mar. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaCRkyKJar4.

    VanZanten, Susan. “A Conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” Image Journal, 21 July 2016, imagejournal.org/article/conversation-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/.

    “What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/books/review/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-by-the-book-interview.html.

    Wilkinson, Carl. “Tales from My Travels: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 6 Mar. 2005, www.theguardian.com/travel/2005/mar/06/observerescapesection3

    Women’s Prize for Fiction. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘I Wanted to Write a History for My Generation of Nigerians.’” YouTube, Women's Prize for Fiction, 12 Nov. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2nlxkVSuG0.

    Book Reviews

    Nixon, Rob. “A Biafran Story.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 1 Oct. 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/books/review/Nixon.t.html.

    Peer Reviewed

    Amonyeze, Chinenye. “Writing a New Reputation: Liminality and Bicultural Identity in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah.” SAGE Journals, vol. 7, no. 2, 2017, doi:

    10.1177/2158244017712773.

    Asaah, Augustine H. “Images of Rape in African Fiction: Between the Assumed Fatality of Violence and the Cry for Justice.” Annales Aequatoria, vol. 28, 2007, pp. 333–355. doi: 10.4314/aq.v28i1.61773.

    Berning, Nora. “Narrative Ethics and Alterity in Adichie's Novel Americanah.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 17, no. 5, 2015, doi: 10.7771/1481-4374.2733.

    Davies, Carole Boyce. “Migration, African Writing and the Postcolonial/Diasporic Chimamanda Adichie Moment.” Advances in Gender Research, vol. 21, June 2016, pp. 233–248. doi: 10.1108/S1529-212620160000021001.

    Ejikeme, Anene. “The Women of Things Fall Apart, Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie's Headstrong Storytellers.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, vol. 15 no. 2, 2017, pp. 307-329. doi:10.2979/meridians.15.2.02.

    Esplin, Marlene. “The Right Not to Translate: The Linguistic Stakes of Immigration in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 49, no. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 73-86. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.49.2.05.

    Fischer, Mia. “Trans Responses to Adichie: Challenging Cis Privilege in Popular Feminism.” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 17, no. 5, Oct. 2017, pp. 896–899, doi:10.1080/14680777.2017.1350520.

    Ford, Na’Imah. “Pedagogy of Empowerment: Approaches to Teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” CLA Journal, vol. 60, no. 4, 2017, pp. 479–499. doi: 10.1353/caj.2017.0014.

    Hawley, John C. “Biafra as Heritage and Symbol: Adichie, Mbachu, and Iweala.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 39, no. 2, 2008. doi: 10.2979/RAL.2008.39.2.15.

    Hewett, Heather. “Coming of Age: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Voice of the Third Generation.” English in Africa, vol. 32, no 1, May 2005, pp. 73-97.

    Hewett, Heather. “Rewriting Human Rights: Gender, Violence, and Freedom in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of J.C. Echeruo, ed. Maik Nwosu. Syracuse University Press, 2015, pp. 166-183.

    Hillman, Susanne. “The Language of Bodies: Violence and the Refusal of Judgment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun.” Research in African Literature, vol. 50, no.1. Spring 2019. doi: 10.2979/RESEAFRILITE.50.1.06.

    Iromuanya, Julie. “Are We All Feminists?: The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, vol. 16 no. 1, 2017, p. 163-183, doi: 10.2979/meridians.16.1.17.

    Kharoua, Mustapha. “Traumatic Realism and the Retrieval of Historical Value in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Postcolonial Text Half of a Yellow Sun.” International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2015.

    Landry, Ava. “Black Is Black Is Black?: African Immigrant Acculturation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., vol. 43, no. 4, 2018, pp. 127–147, doi: 10.1093/melus/mly044.

    Lascelles, Amber. “Locating Black Feminist Resistance through Diaspora and Post-Diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Stories.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 2020, pp. 227–240. doi: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1750176.

    Lecznar, Matthew. “(Re)Fashioning Biafra: Identity, Authorship, and the Politics of Dress in Half of a Yellow Sun and Other Narratives of the Nigeria-Biafra War.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 47, no. 4, 2016, pp. 112–132, doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.47.4.07.

    Mabura, Lily G. N. “Breaking Gods: An African Postcolonial Gothic Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's ‘Purple Hibiscus’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun.’” Research in African Literatures, vol. 39, no. 1, 2008, pp. 203–222, doi: 10.2979/RAL.2008.39.1.203.

    Ngwira, Emmanuel. “Daughterly Texts: Fathers and Their Daughters in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 15, no. 1, 2020, pp. 93–106, doi: 10.1080/21674736.2020.1786930.

    Norridge, Zoë. “Sex as Synecdoche: Intimate Languages of Violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 43, no. 2, 2012, pp. 18–39, doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.43.2.18.

    Ross, Michael L. “Ownership of Language: Diglossia in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2019, pp. 111-126, doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.50.1.07.

    Shah, Arif Rashid. “Double-Consciousness: An Analytical Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.” Language in India, vol. 19, no. 12, Dec. 2019, pp. 85–90.

    Sharobeem, Heba M. “Space as the Representation of Cultural Conflict and Gender Relations in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's ‘The Thing Around Your Neck.’” Rocky Mountain Review, vol. 69, no. 1, 2015, pp. 18–36.

    Simoes da Silva, Tony. “Embodied Genealogies and Gendered Violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing.” African Identities, vol. 10, no. 4, Nov. 2012, pp. 455–470, doi: 10.1080/14725843.2012.731881.

    Stobie, Cheryl. “Dethroning the Infallible Father: Religion, Patriarchy and Politics in Chimamanda Ngozi Aichie’s ‘Purple Hibiscus.’” Literature and Theology, vol. 24, no. 4, 2010, pp. 421–435. doi: 10.1093/litthe/frq051.

    Tunca, Daria. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as Chinua Achebe's (Unruly) Literary Daughter: The Past, Present, and Future of ‘Adichebean’ Criticism.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 49, no. 4, 2018, p. 107, doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.49.4.08.

    Tunca, Daria. “The Confessions of a ‘Buddhist Catholic’: Religion in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 44, no. 3, 2013, p. 50, doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.44.3.50.

    Tunca, Daria and Benedicte Ledent. “The Power of a Singular Story: Narrating Africa and Its Diasporas.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 46, no. 4, Winter 2015, pp. 1-9. doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.46.4.1

    VanZanten, Susan. “‘The Headstrong Historian’: Writing with Things Fall Apart.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 46, no. 2, 2015, pp. 85–103, doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.46.2.85.

    Wallace, Cynthia R. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's ‘Purple Hibiscus’ and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Redemption.” Christianity and Literature, vol. 61, no. 3, 2012, pp. 465–483. doi: 10.1177%2F014833311206100311.

    Wosu, Kalu. “Binary Constructs: Gender and Power Relations in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.” Journal of Gender and Power, 2017.

    Wosu, Kalu. “Writing and Discourse: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun as a Civil War Narrative.” Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 2018, pp. 121–133.

    Wenske, Ruth. “Adichie in Dialogue with Achebe: Balancing Dualities in Half of a Yellow Sun.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 47, no.3. Fall 2019. doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.05

    Yerima, Dina. “Regimentation or Hybridity? Western Beauty Practices by Black Women in Adichie's Americanah.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 48, no. 7, 2017, pp. 639–650. doi: 10.1177/0021934717712711

    Additional Readings

    Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. William Heinemann Ltd, 1958

    Bain, Miranda. "BIOGRAPHY: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Writer, Feminist." The Heroine Collective, 19 Feb. 2016, www.theheroinecollective.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/

    Boots. “No7 Match Made Ad with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 60'.” YouTube, YouTube, 20 Oct. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1hMx_dx1nE.

    Campbell, John. “Nigeria's Cultural Efflorescence.” Council on Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, 24 Nov. 2020, www.cfr.org/blog/nigerias-cultural-efflorescence.

    “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Isn't Quite the Champion of Feminism You Think – Here's Why.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 23 Dec. 2018, www.independent.co.uk/voices/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-trans-exclusionary-black-women-hillary-clinton-a8696931.html.

    Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness. Blackwood's Magazine, 1902

    Crockett, Emily. “The controversy over Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and trans women, explained.” Vox, 2017, https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14910900/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-comments-apology

    Habila, Helon. Oil on Water. Cornelsen, 2019.

    Huxley, Aldous. On the Margin: Notes and Essays. Chatto and Windus, 1971.

    “The Intolerant Left.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 19 Aug. 2018, www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/the-intolerant-left/545783/.

    Kiefer, Halle. “Laverne Cox Responds to Adichie's Comments About Trans Women and Male Privilege.” Vulture, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2017, www.vulture.com/2017/03/ laverne-cox-chimamanda-adichie-trans-women-privilege.html.

    Law, Katie. “Zikora: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Tackles Sexism and Single Motherhood.” London Evening Standard | Evening Standard, Evening Standard, 29 Oct. 2020, www.standard.co.uk/culture/books/zikora-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-book-review-a4573312.html.

    MacFarquhar, Larissa. "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Comes to Terms with Global Fame." The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-comes-to-terms-with-global-fame.

    Orwell, George. Shooting an Elephant. Sv. bokförl. (Bonnier), 1962.

    Pearce, Katie. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Politics, Race, and Writing at Johns Hopkins.” The Hub, 9 Feb. 2017, hub.jhu.edu/2017/02/09/chimamanda-adichie-fas-hopkins/.

    S, Rajitha. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie And Her Feminist Activism Through Storytelling.” Feminism In India, FII Media Private Limited, 16 Sept. 2019, feminisminindia.com/2019/09/16/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminist-activism-storytelling/.

    Theroux, Paul. The White Man's Burden: a Play in Two Acts. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.

    Willis, Raquel. “A Trans Woman's Response to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” Medium, Medium, 11 Mar. 2017, https://raquel-willis.medium.com/a-trans-womans-response-to-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-bb7955004244

    “Gender & Power.” Women & Religion in Africa, The University of Vermont, 8 May 2013, blog.uvm.edu/vlbrenna-rel163/gender-power/.

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    “Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie '08 M.A. to Speak at Class Day.” YaleNews, 4 Mar. 2019, news.yale.edu/2019/03/04/author-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-08-ma-speak-class-day.

    “Award-Winning Author Adichie Explores Faith, Feminism at Georgetown Event.” Georgetown University News, 17 Mar. 2017, https://www.georgetown.edu/news/award-winning-author-adichie-explores-faith-feminism-at-georgetown-event/.

    Bain, Miranda. “Biography: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Writer, Feminist.” The Heroine Collective, 19 Feb. 2016, http://www.theheroinecollective.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/.

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