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State University of New York at Binghamton., English, General Literature, and Rhetoric.

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Descent or dissent: Patriarchy and genre in Adichie and Achebe.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Descent or dissent: Patriarchy and genre in Adichie and Achebe./
Author:	Eisenberg, Eve Judith.
Description:	64 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Susan Strehle.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International47-01.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1456529
ISBN:	9780549706915

Descent or dissent: Patriarchy and genre in Adichie and Achebe.
Eisenberg, Eve Judith.

Descent or dissent: Patriarchy and genre in Adichie and Achebe. - 64 p.

Adviser: Susan Strehle.

Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2008.

In this thesis I examine the work of two Nigerian authors---Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie---in order to explore consequences and implications of the paucity of genre delineation in African literature. I begin with a close reading of Achebe's Arrow of God, and theorize that he uses patriarchy as a descriptive metaphor for British imperial behavior in Nigeria. A corollary argument is that women's stories, to the extent that they appear at all, are profoundly figurative, and that Achebe's representation of women tends to elide women's real lived experiences in Igbo society. I go on to take up literary critics who link Achebe to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an up-and-coming Nigerian novelist. By examining the contrasts between the ways in which these authors represent women, I work to reveal the essentializing assumptions which underlie statements linking Achebe and Adichie specifically, and criticism of African texts in general.

ISBN: 9780549706915Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

Descent or dissent: Patriarchy and genre in Adichie and Achebe.
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