Representation of History in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006

Authors

  • Roshan K. Morve Central University of Gujarat

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v2i1.291

Keywords:

Nigeria, post-colonial, Biafran war

Abstract

This study deals with the conflict of Nigerian Biafran War 6 July, 1960-15 January, 1967 as represented in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). The study attempts to address the following four questions: first, what are the causes-effects of Biafran/Civil war? Second, why Nigerians have been suffering during the wartime? Third, how does the representation of Nigerian history enable understanding of the post-colonial issues? And final, what is the role of conflict in Nigerian history? In order to understand this conflict, the study addresses the detailed analysis of war conflict, ethnic conflict, class conflict, military conflict and eco-political conflict. The post-colonial approach becomes one of the ways of engaging the theoretical understanding of the novel Half of a Yellow Sun. In sum up, the novel is located with the issues of marginality, history and conflict, which interrogates through post-colonial theoretical formations and the six-phase structure of war novels.

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Author Biography

  • Roshan K. Morve , Central University of Gujarat

    Ph.D. Research Scholar, Center for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Central University of Gujarat, India

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Published

2015-06-30

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): January - June Issue

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Peer-reviewed Article

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Morve , R. K. . (2015). Representation of History in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006. Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature, 2(1), 23-28. https://doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v2i1.291
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