Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1496829271 ISBN 13 : 9781496829276

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2020

Synopsis

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also an outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: “I have things to say and I’ll say them.”

Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the first collection of interviews with the writer. Covering fifteen years of con-versations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie’s first novel, Purple Hibis-cus (2003), and end in late 2018, by which time Adichie had become one of the most prominent figures on the international literary scene. As both scholars and passionate read-ers of the author’s work are bound to find out, the opinions shared by Adichie in interviews over the years coalesce into a fascinating portrait that presents both abiding features and gradual transformations.

Reflecting the political and emotional scope of Adichie’s work, the conversations contained in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including co-lonialism, race, immigration, and feminism. Collectively, these interviews testify both to the author’s ardent wish to strive for a more just and equal world, and to her deep interest in ex-ploring our common humanity. As Adichie says in her 2009 interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro: “When people call me a novelist, I say, well, yes. I really think of myself as a story-teller.” This book invites Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to tell her own literary story.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daria Tunca works at the University of Liège, Belgium, where she is a member of the postcolonial research group CEREP. She is author of Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction and coeditor of several volumes, including Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge, Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction, and Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496829271
• ISBN 13: 9781496829276
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: Tunca Daria
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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