To instantiate her opposition to this practice, Adichie accords authoritative roles and voices to her female characters, despite their living under repressive and constraining spaces. Adichie’s fiction mainly presents (Black) women as constantly living in patriarchal and repressive spaces characterised by multifaceted discriminations, marginalisation, abuse, commodification and censorship, all of which are protracted by the notion that femaleness should live in total subjection to maleness. This chapter reflects on how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in multifarious ways, projects and confronts a nuanced (and blatant) exaltation of maleness over femaleness in her fiction. The title of the novel, 'Purple Hibiscus' may refer to a particular sort of flower, but it also emphasises the triumph of the innovative suggesting that the unusual is not necessarily bad as the subversion of genders aims to bring equality among the sexes promoting new awakening. Her novel suggests women empowerment through social transformation by which the different forms of oppression, exploitation, exclusion and silencing are confronted by women promoting gender equality.

Adichie's approach to subvert male oppression confirms that despite the struggles, women assert themselves in a world dominated by men through education and female solidarity. Kambili's, the young protagonist's life represents a coherent response to the challenges of life in a postcolonial African nation as the novel pays attention to the different forms of oppression in the lives of women in postcolonial Nigerian society. It offers a reading of Adichie's novel, Purple Hibiscus as a quintessential African feminist novel, negating female aesthetics of suffering and upholding the aesthetics of women empowerment. Urn:oclc:263645828 Scandate 20100714062551 Scanner article focuses on the first novel of contemporary Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (2003). OL5731538W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.76 Pages 328 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1616202424 Urn:lcp:purplehibiscusno00adic:epub:659971d2-c731-48c2-bee9-0a7fed257d25 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier purplehibiscusno00adic Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0ms4fs8c Isbn 1400076943ĩ781400076949 Lccn 2004051629 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Internetarchivebookdrive Edition 1st Anchor Books ed. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:23:42 Boxid IA122404 Boxid_2 CH123501 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor

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