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THE REVERSAL OF GENDER POWER EQUATIONS IN HALF OF A YELLOW SUN BY CHIMAMANDA NGOZI AFICHIE

    1 Author(s):  HARSHITA CHHIKARA

Vol -  7, Issue- 7 ,         Page(s) : 288 - 293  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's luminous and formidable talent was first seen in Purple Hibiscus, her 2004 novel about a childhood devastated by a religious patriarch, which won a Commonwealth writers' prize and was shortlisted for the Orange prize. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, takes its title from the emblem for Biafra, the breakaway state in eastern Nigeria that survived for only three years, and whose name became a global byword for war by starvation. Adichie's powerful focus on war's impact on civilian life, and the trauma beyond the trenches, earns this novel a place alongside such works as Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy and Helen Dunmore's depiction of the Leningrad blockade, The Siege.

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