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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... with a commanding economic force, black hair as an industry acts both within and without the bounds of the patriarchal state, macrocosmically, and the male head of the patriarchal family, microcosmically. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah, while concerned with her protagonist's mediation...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 307–329.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Anene Ejikeme Abstract This essay argues that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “Headstrong Historian” offers a woman’s perspective on the Igbo encounter with European colonialism, a history made famous by Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart who told the story from a male perspective...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... international action to combat fundamentalist violence, what was on display, according to Chimamanda Adichie, was an attempt to fit the incident into an already existing narrative of Taliban-style repression of girls familiar to the Western media and the public. Indeed, Adichie speaks of the use of the social...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
Published: 01 October 2023
... that I know because there are other forms of knowledge that exist beyond us as humans.” Patel is aware of this struggle for space that women and queer communities of color experience. Therefore, she has been critical of the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie, who, in an interview with the French...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2017
... with three essays from the Continent: essays that confront patriarchy head-on through different means. Anene Ejikeme's "The Women ofThingsFallApart examines the short story, "Headstrong Historian," by Chimamanda Adichie which, Ejikeme argues, provides a woman's perspective of the Igbo-colonialist encounter...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2018
... representation in Chimamanda Adichie's novel, AmericanaEhs.chewing the simplistic framing of beauty work and the hair care industry as inherently structured by-and thus subservient to--patriarchal and/or white supremacist regimes, Iromuanya argues that African natural hair care agents are "nuanced" feminists who...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 279–295.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... Works Cited Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi . 2013 . “ We Should All Be Feminists .” YouTube, April 12 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc&feature=youtu.be . Akin-Aina Sinmi . 2011 . “ Beyond an Epistemology of Bread, Butter, Culture and Power: Mapping the African Feminist...
