عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA120134
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Ethnic Conflict and the Politics of Greed Rethinking Chimamanda Adichies
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Nick Mdika Tembo
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The African continent today is laced with some of the most intractable conflicts, most of them based on ethnic nationalism. More often than not, this has led to poor governance, unequal distribution of resources, state collapse, high attrition of human resources, economic decline, and inter-ethnic clashes. This essay seeks to examine Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's through the lens of ethnic conflict. It begins by tracing the history and manifestations of ethnic stereotypes and ethnic cleavage in African imaginaries. The essay then argues that group loyalty in Nigeria led to the creation of 'biafranization' or 'fear of the Igbo factor' in the Hausa-Fulani and the various other ethnic groups that sympathized with them; a fear that crystallized into a thirty-month state-sponsored bulwark campaign aimed at finding a 'final solution' to a 'problem population'. Finally, the essay contends that Adichie's anatomizes the impact of ethnic cleavage on the civilian Igbo population during the Nigeria-Biafra civil war. Adichie, I argue, participates in an ongoing re-invention of how Africans can extinguish the psychology of fear that they are endangered species when they live side by side with people who do not belong to their 'tribe'.
SET
Date of Publication
2012
Physical description
173-189
Title
Matatu
Volume Number
40/1
International Standard Serial Number
1875-7421
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
African Studies
Subject Term
Comparative Studies & World Literature
Subject Term
Criticism & Theory
Subject Term
Cultural History
Subject Term
Literature & Culture
Subject Term
Literature and Cultural Studies
Subject Term
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Nick Mdika Tembo
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/18757421-040001011
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Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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