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Of French Fries and Cookies: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Diasporic Short Fiction
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Tunca, Daria |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Anglophone Nigerian literature started to receive widespread recognition as early as the 1950s, and Nigeria has, since then, not ceased to produce noteworthy writers. To pioneering figures such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Amos Tutuola, all of whom published their first works shortly before the nation‟s independence, have succeeded other household names, including Ben Okri, Buchi Emecheta and Niyi Osundare. A few years ago, the international literary scene witnessed the advent of a so-called „third-generation‟ of Nigerian writers, comprising outstanding talents like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chris Abani and Chika Unigwe. 1 Significantly, the vast majority of these successful young authors live either in Europe or in the United States. Over the past half century, it has thus become increasingly clear that the concept of Nigerian literature in its broadest sense could not be dissociated from the idea of diaspora. If Achebe and Soyinka are generally not considered diasporic writers, 2 this description has been applied to authors who settled in Britain as young adults and have spent most of their time there since then, such as Okri and Emecheta. It is not only their place of residence but also the subject |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/33339/1/Tunca_Adichie_African.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ortk.pw/wud-k-zos-meby-me.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
