Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-10-11T11:42:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilladecarvalhomaiaventura.pdf: 1183551 bytes, checksum: 4ead0853680bdd66398d3eb51033bed9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-10-16T13:52:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilladecarvalhomaiaventura.pdf: 1183551 bytes, checksum: 4ead0853680bdd66398d3eb51033bed9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-16T13:52:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilladecarvalhomaiaventura.pdf: 1183551 bytes, checksum: 4ead0853680bdd66398d3eb51033bed9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-13 / A presente dissertação propõe o estudo das consequências da dominação colonial britânica sobre a República Federal da Nigéria no que concerne à religião, educação, língua, raça e gênero, tendo como objetos de análise Things Fall Apart (1958) de Chinua Achebe e Purple Hibiscus (2003) de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A maneira de ler e produzir literatura vem se metamorfoseando ao longo dos séculos XX e XXI, abrindo espaço para que despontem as literaturas pós-coloniais, isto é, obras que possuem como atributo comum o fato de emergirem da experiência da colonização. Impulsionada por este contexto, a produção literária africana vem conquistando espaço e notoriedade no cenário mundial. Este trabalho busca relacionar literatura e situação sócio-política, trazendo para o debate vozes historicamente silenciadas e abrindo possibilidades de resistência às perspectivas impostas pelo olhar do colonizador, através da investigação da literatura nigeriana. Embora o período de dominação britânica sobre a Nigéria tenha chegado ao fim, as consequências de tal política ainda se fazem presentes no cotidiano daquele povo, seja na religião tradicional brutalmente substituída pelo cristianismo, nos idiomas autóctones que perdem lugar para a língua inglesa, no sistema de aprendizado estrangeiro que toma o lugar do ensino familiar ou na valorização da pele branca e do sistema patriarcal de poder. Tendo destacado papel no estabelecimento da estrutura colonial, busca-se aqui converter a literatura em instrumento de libertação. / The present thesis proposes the study of the consequences of British colonialism over the Federal Republic of Nigeria concerning religion, education, language, race and gender, having as objects of analyses Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe and Purple Hibiscus (2003) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The way in which literature is written and read has been changing throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, opening space to the postcolonial literatures, that is, literatures that have as a common background the fact that they come from the experience of colonialism. Propelled by this context, African literary production has been achieving space and renown in the global scenery. This work aims to relate literature and social-political situation, bringing to the debate historically silenced voices, opening possibilities to resist the colonial gaze while investigating the Nigerian literature. Even though the british colonial rule has come to an end, the consequences of this politics are still present in the daily lives of that people, in the fact that traditional religion was brutally substituted by Christianism, in the ancient languages replaced by English, in the educational system that took over home schooling, in the valorization of white skin and the patriarchal power system. Literature has a central role in establishing colonial structures and this work tries to convert literature into a liberation tool.

Alla borde vara feminister av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delades ut till Sveriges gymnasietvåor läsåret 2015/2016 med en medföljande lärarhandledning. I den här uppsatsen berättar elever och lärare om sina erfarenheter av boken och undervisning utifrån den. Halvstrukturerande intervjuer, en enkät och en fokusgrupp har använts för att samla in materialet som sedan analyserats tematiskt utifrån Freires kritiska pedagogik, Spivaks postkoloniala perspektiv och Kumashiros teorier om lärande genom kris. Både elever och lärare vittnar om ämnets och undervisningens angelägenhet och förändrande potential, men också om riskerna med att undervisningen reproducerar svenskhet som det jämställda och vice versa. Ett par slutsatser är att ett historiskt perspektiv kan bidra till att få normer och strukturer att framstå som föränderliga, och ett postkolonialt perspektiv kan behövas för att sexism inte oproblematiserat ska tillskrivas den etniske Andre, något som flera andraspråkselever vittnar om. Vidare diskuteras det didaktiska värdet med en intersektionell analys och att låta eleverna själva formulera problemen som undervisningen tar sin utgångspunkt i.

Människor som lever i krig påverkas av våld, hot, svält och flykt vilket i förlängningen kan påverka deras människosyn. Uppsatsen undersöker hur tre karaktärer i Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies roman En halv gul sol påverkas, vad gäller människosyn, av att leva i Biafrakriget. Fokus för studien är självrespekt och respekt för andra, baserat i teorier om respekt för alla människors lika värde. De tre karaktärerna har olika utgångspunkter vad gäller självrespekt och respekt för andra och påverkas även på olika vis av kriget.

In this thesis, I attempt to explore the development of migrant literature in an era of digitalcommunication. The latest developments in communication technology have certainlydestabilized patterns of content creation and dissemination. While many use it uncritically,mostly as a means of information and keeping in contact, there are new avenues open forthose who wish to engage actively and create a space for new dialogue. And though theseonline platforms have not completely overturned hierarchies between literatures from theWest versus the global South, they have certainly altered both the content and form of workoriginating from African countries. By doing so, digital technology has boosted the creationof an African identity that moves away from victimhood by reimagining ideas of what itmeans to be and write from an African perspective where a multiplicity and hybridity ofvoices exist. I have chosen three “digital migrant novels” (Caren Irr’s term): ChimamandaNgozi Adichihe’s Americanah, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names, and Open Cityby Teju Cole. I begin by situating these novels in a technologically sophisticated, mediaoriented space, where the geography of nations is challenged by overlapping spaces of digitalcommunication. My aim is threefold – to identify new patterns in migrant identity and to seehow they are affected by technology use; to see whether these patterns correspond to theemergence of an Afropolitan identity (and to understand what permutations this Afropolitanidentity can take on). And and finally, to analyse how digital media communication shapes amigrant’s relationship to homeland and language.

This study explores the silencing of familial spaces in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. It probes into how the familial space is invested with religiosity: how ritual and norm structure and silence familial spaces and how transcendence from these spaces can be achieved through elements of laughter, music and sexuality. The study uses post-colonial theories, concepts of familial ideology and familial theory to read the text. The introductory chapter provides a politico-historical background of the text, then a literary historiography of how the familial trope has been used in African literature with special focus on Achebe. The chapter also outlines the theoretical framework of the study while anticipating the issues to be dealt with. Chapter two focuses on how the familial space is invested with religious rituals and how these silence the familial space. Chapter three examines how augmentation out of the silenced familial spaces works through elements of laughter, sexuality and music. Chapter four investigates the family as a portrait of the state and most significantly how these two institutions are portrayed to be in a complex relationship. The study’s conclusion is that the family can be used as an alternative site for discourses of marginality and can give a nuanced critique of the postcolony.

Migration and its consequences are often discussed in contemporary postcolonial discussions. This topic of migration is central in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Adichie’s portrayal of the migrating subject has placed her in the center of the Afropolitan discussion about transnational Africans and their right to represent. This essay aims to bring this discussion to light. Furthermore, with the use of Benedict Anderson’s ideas of nations as imagined communities, Edward Said’s definition of Orientalism, and Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of mimicry, this essay intends to illuminate the colonial discourse of Americanah’s America. I argue that the novel’s protagonist Ifemelu’s migration to the land of the free is bordered by remnants of colonial discourse, placing her within a western array of marginalization. As Ifemelu struggles with issues connected to her migration into a culture that marginalizes and discriminates under the proud flag of “the American Dream,” she is forced to resort to mimicry of western traits, to get access to western privilege. I contend that the mimicry of western traits consequently reduces her presence in America to partial.

Linguistics and literary studies approach the same object language from different perspectives. In spite of their shared interest, these fields of research are still separated by a border that is all too rarely crossed. The discipline of stylistics, however, has tried to exploit the common ground between the two domains. This dissertation will attempt to bridge the gap further by examining how linguistic theory can contribute to the elaboration of literary interpretations of selected works by three Nigerian authors. This study takes as its point of departure the Bakhtinian view that language is inextricably linked to its development in society. The medium carries the ideologies to which it has been attached throughout history, leaving speakers with the difficult task of appropriating words for the expression of their own intentions. This socially based perception of linguistic codes finds echoes in post-colonial theory, which has paid attention to the ideological implications behind the imposition of the colonial language in the former British Empire, to which Nigeria belonged. Post-colonial movements of linguistic decolonization have taken many forms and, in the literary field, the responses given by African authors have been among the most remarkable. The first chapter of this dissertation provides an overview of the question of language in African literature, an issue that has divided both writers and critics for decades. It is discussed here in relation to the definition of African literature and to more general considerations on the subject of categorization. The second part of the chapter is devoted to a discussion of the methodological choices that have informed the analyses conducted in the rest of the study. It is argued that linguistic investigations into Nigerian fiction should take into account the many culturally specific strategies that can be found in the countrys literature, but should also extend their scope to stylistic techniques that are not directly linked to the literary works post-colonial status. The second chapter focuses on the novel Another Lonely Londoner, a rarely discussed work by the little-known author Gbenga Agbenugba. The narrative is written in an experimental style that mixes English with Nigerian Pidgin and includes elements of Nigerian English, Black British English, Cockney and Yoruba. Extensive analyses of the interaction between English and Nigerian Pidgin are undertaken from sociolinguistic and grammatical perspectives, each time with the view of assessing the impact of the languages on the novels possible literary interpretations. The other codes, varieties and linguistic influences contained in the book also receive systematic treatment, and it gradually appears that all these elements combine to produce a complex polyphonic piece. The third chapter provides an examination of selected works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The investigation into Adichies writing constitutes the point of methodological articulation of this study. The first part follows the way paved by the analysis of Agbenugbas novel, and further looks into issues relating to cultures and linguistic codes, among which the themes of language and food in some of Adichies short stories, and the presence of Igbo, codeswitching and proverbs in her novel Purple Hibiscus (2003). The second part of the chapter departs from explicitly cultural models and investigates the narrators use of language with a variety of theories, borrowed for instance from functional grammar and cognitive linguistics. This combination of approaches aims at demonstrating that literary, cultural, social and cognitive methods can complement each other to produce a coherent interpretation of Adichies work. The final chapter compares Ben Okris second novel, The Landscapes Within (1981), with the authors revised version of the same book, Dangerous Love (1996). A general introduction outlining the changes that have taken place between the two narratives is followed by a discussion of some of the stylistic aspects that distinguish Okris earlier novel from his later text. The chapter then takes a cognitive turn, and tries to establish the importance of metaphor in the novels, especially in Dangerous Love. This analysis of metaphor leads to the creation of an interpretative framework that forms the basis for a textual analysis of some of the novels narrative sequences. The conclusion reaffirms that the adoption of an eclectic methodology has contributed to the exploration of Gbenga Agbenugbas, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies and Ben Okris approaches to the notion of identity. In the light of these results, possible lines of research are evoked. La linguistique et les études littéraires abordent le même objet le langage ou la langue selon des perspectives différentes. Malgré leur objet commun, ces domaines de recherche restent séparés par une frontière qui nest que trop rarement franchie. La stylistique a toutefois tenté dexploiter lespace partagé par ces deux disciplines. La présente dissertation tâchera de poursuivre cet effort en examinant les manières dont la théorie linguistique peut contribuer à lélaboration dinterprétations littéraires ; ces dernières porteront, en loccurrence, sur des textes choisis dans luvre de trois auteurs nigérians. Cette étude prend sa source dans la conception bakhtinienne selon laquelle le langage est inextricablement lié à son développement au sein de la société. En effet, le médium charrie les idéologies auxquelles il a été attaché au fil de lhistoire, laissant les locuteurs aux prises avec une tâche difficile : celle de sapproprier les mots pour exprimer leurs propres intentions. Cette perception des codes linguistiques, fondée sur une approche sociale, trouve des échos dans la théorie post-coloniale, qui sest intéressée aux implications idéologiques de lutilisation imposée de la langue coloniale dans lancien Empire britannique, auquel appartenait le Nigeria. Les mouvements post-coloniaux de décolonisation linguistique ont pris de nombreuses formes et, dans le champ littéraire, les réponses apportées par les auteurs africains comptent parmi les plus remarquables. Le premier chapitre de cette dissertation offre un aperçu général du problème de la langue dans la littérature africaine, lequel divise écrivains et critiques depuis des décennies. Ce thème est ici mis en relation avec la définition de la littérature africaine, ainsi quavec des considérations plus générales portant sur la question de la catégorisation. La seconde partie de ce chapitre consiste en un examen des choix méthodologiques qui ont sous-tendu les analyses menées dans le reste de cette étude. Largument avancé dans cette section est le suivant : toute exploration linguistique de la fiction nigériane devrait prendre en considération non seulement les multiples stratégies culturellement spécifiques présentes dans la littérature du pays, mais également souvrir aux techniques stylistiques qui ne sont pas directement liées au statut post-colonial des uvres littéraires. Le deuxième chapitre est consacré à Another Lonely Londoner, une uvre rarement traitée par la critique et due à un auteur méconnu : Gbenga Agbenugba. Le roman est rédigé dans un style expérimental mêlant langlais au pidgin nigérian et incorporant des éléments danglais nigérian, danglais parlé par la communauté noire en Grande-Bretagne, de Cockney et de Yoruba. Des analyses approfondies de linteraction entre langlais et le pidgin nigérian sont entreprises selon des perspectives sociolinguistiques et grammaticales, dans le but dévaluer, dans chaque cas, limpact des langues sur les possibles interprétations littéraires du roman. Les autres codes, variétés et influences linguistiques contenus dans le livre font également lobjet dune étude systématique, dont il ressort progressivement que tous ces éléments se combinent de manière à produire un texte complexe et polyphonique. Le troisième chapitre examine une sélection duvres écrites par Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Lexploration de ces dernières constitue le point darticulation méthodologique de la présente étude. La première partie suit la voie tracée par lanalyse du roman dAgbenugba, et investigue plus avant certaines questions relatives aux cultures et aux codes linguistiques, parmi lesquelles les thèmes de la langue et de la nourriture dans certaines nouvelles dAdichie, ainsi que la présence de ligbo, lalternance codique et les proverbes dans son roman Purple Hibiscus (2003). La seconde partie du chapitre sécarte des modèles explicitement culturels pour explorer, à laide dun éventail de théories notamment empruntées à la grammaire fonctionnelle et à la linguistique cognitive, lusage que le narrateur fait du langage. Cette combinaison dapproches vise à démontrer que les méthodes littéraire, culturelle, sociale et cognitive peuvent se compléter pour produire une interprétation cohérente de luvre dAdichie. Le chapitre final compare le deuxième roman de Ben Okri, The Landscapes Within (1981), à Dangerous Love (1996), la version du même livre revue par son auteur. Une introduction générale exposant les grandes lignes des changements qui se sont produits dun texte à lautre précède un examen de certains des aspects stylistiques qui distinguent le premier roman dOkri du second. Le chapitre prend ensuite une dimension cognitive, et sefforce de souligner limportance de la métaphore dans les romans, particulièrement dans Dangerous Love. Cette étude de la métaphore mène à la création dun cadre interprétatif sur lequel se fonde lanalyse textuelle de certaines séquences narratives extraites du roman. La conclusion réaffirme que ladoption dune méthodologie éclectique a permis dexplorer la façon dont Gbenga Agbenugba, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie et Ben Okri abordent la notion didentité. À la lumière de ces résultats, des pistes de recherche possibles sont évoquées.

In Purple Hibiscus, Adichie describes what happens in a family when one person, Papa Eugene, takes control and completely subjugates other family members to his wishes and demands. The author shows the dire consequences his actions have on his family but also how those actions ultimately lead to his own destruction. This essay links the restrictions and abuse suffered by Kambili and her family to Michel Foucault’s theories on torture and surveillance as detailed in Discipline and Punish. Foucault’s theories are linked to Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon in order to further introduce the concept of surveillance. The essay describes the physical and psychological abuse suffered by the family and also details the surveillance and torture techniques used by Papa Eugene to stay in control. Moreover, it argues that power can be lost through applying too much control and by metering out punishment that is too harsh and it shows how such actions ultimately lead to rebellion.

Submitted by Automação e Estatística (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2018-05-02T22:29:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ThayaneDeAraujoMorais_DISSERT.pdf: 7296100 bytes, checksum: f63d12af9732154141609cf592d2957c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-05-04T22:56:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ThayaneDeAraujoMorais_DISSERT.pdf: 7296100 bytes, checksum: f63d12af9732154141609cf592d2957c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-04T22:56:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ThayaneDeAraujoMorais_DISSERT.pdf: 7296100 bytes, checksum: f63d12af9732154141609cf592d2957c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A literatura africana, em sua poeticidade insubmissa, tem proporcionado abertura de espaços nos quais a configuração heterogênea dos países africanos estabelece as bases propícias para uma reflexão crítica do papel da literatura no mundo contemporâneo. A literatura escrita por mulheres emerge a partir das desleituras dos sujeitos subalternos silenciados, em um movimento que ressalta a especificidade subjetiva, ao passo que intensifica a desconstrução promovida pela produção artística periférica. Localizando nesse contexto a criação literária das mulheres africanas, evidencia-se o questionamento aos aparatos opressivos, diante da escrita que reúne tradição ancestral e herança colonial no labirinto das negociações culturais fundantes. Em meio a uma nova ordem mundial, na qual os direitos humanos estão sendo a cada dia oprimidos, silenciados, voltamo-nos à voz feminina articulada pelo texto literário de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Em um território marcado pela violência e pelo machismo, a jovem escritora nigeriana avulta uma crítica incisiva à subalternidade do sujeito feminino na literatura. Por meio de um discurso que traduz aspectos da cultura nigeriana e americana, Adichie contesta a condição opressiva imposta à mulher pelo poder hegemônico masculinizado. Em virtude da multiplicidade observada na caracterização da mulher nigeriana, em poética embebida de sinestesias, apresenta-se uma análise da coletânea de contos A coisa à volta do teu pescoço (2012), ao se abordar as problemáticas que incidem nas personagens. Considera-se para isso uma conjuntura histórica e cultural que revela na forma de contar o anseio de as mulheres protagonizarem um destino histórico de silenciamento. Nessa perspectiva, inqueriu-se sobre os papéis de gênero e os elementos interseccionais – como raça, classe, discurso, poder, instâncias culturais – que traduzem um diálogo trans-semiótico com as questões de gênero. Ao se trabalhar com conceitos culturais inacabados, constata-se que a transgressão dos lugares opressivos reservados à mulher nigeriana ainda são mínimos. Observou-se também como a formação de uma consciência crítica que permita uma revisão da situação de violência e exclusão da mulher ainda é um grande desafio no início do século XXI. Como base para as considerações, e por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, seguiu-se pelos caminhos das teorias literárias de cunho feminista de acordo com as reflexões de Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2014), Angela Y. Davis (2016) e Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2015), esta última, no que concerne ao seu pensar acerca da cultura, unindo consciência política ao trabalho estético. / African Literature, in its unsubmissive poeticity, has proportionate the opening spaces where heterogeneous configuration from the African countries lays the foundations for the critical reflection about the role of literature in contemporary world. Literature written by women emerges from unlearnings of silenced subalterns subjects, across a movement that stands out subjective specificity, awhile intensifies deconstruction promoted by peripheral artistic production. Located in this context, literary creation of African women, is evident the questions around oppressive devices before writing that meets ancestral tradition and colonial heritage into the maze of negotiations of cultural foundations. In between a new world order, which human rights are oppressed every day, silenced, we return to female voice articulated by the literary text of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In a territory marked by violence and male chauvinism, the young Nigerian writer emphasizes an incisive criticism to the subalternity of female subject in literature. By means of a speech that translates aspects of American and Nigerian culture, Adichie answers the oppressive condition imposed to woman by the hegemonic male power. By virtue of observed multiplicity on Nigerian woman description, in poetic embedded in synesthesia, presents an analysis of a collection of short stories The thing around your neck (2012), approaching problematics focused on the characters. It is considered for that a cultural and historical conjuncture which reveals in its form of telling the women’s urge to protagonize a historic destiny of silencing. In this perspective, it was inquired about gender roles and the intersectional elements – such as race, class, discourse, power, cultural instances – that translate a trans-semiotic dialogue with gender issues. While working with unfinished cultural concepts, it is verified that transgression of oppressive places reserved to Nigerian woman are minimal. It was also verified how a critical awareness formation that permits a review of the situation of violence and exclusion of woman is still a great challenge in the beginning of XXI century. As a basis of our considerations, and through bibliographic research, we follow the paths of feminist literary theories according to reflections of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2014), Angela Y. Davis (2016) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2015), the latest, as far as her thinking about culture, uniting political consciousness to aesthetic work.

Skolans värdegrundsarbete ska genomsyra undervisningen inom alla ämnen och inom svenskämnet kan vägen in i detta arbete utgöras av litteratur. Syftet med studien är att undersöka didaktisk potential i två romaner ur ett värdegrundsperspektiv. Metoden utgörs av den nykritiska textanalysmetoden närläsning samt tematisk analys. Materialet för studien består av de två romanerna Ondskan av Jan Guillou och Lila hibiskus av Chimamanda Adichie. Resultatet visade att romanerna på ett övergripande plan uppvisar en liknande värdegrundsrelaterad tematik men att denna gestaltas på olika sätt och i olika utsträckning, samt att Lila hibiskus behandlar fler värdegrundsfrågor än Ondskan. Slutsatsen är att båda romaner kan utgöra ett fruktbart material i svenskämnets värdegrundsarbete men beroende på lärarens intentioner kan endera utgöra ett lämpligare val.