- SOCIAL SCIENCE, Nigerian Authors, Gender Studies, Sex differences (Psychology)
In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now -- and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
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Contemporary, spare, character-led and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Vintage, Literatura Random House
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780008115289
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“Okoloma was one of my greatest childhood friends.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her latest novel Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, and has rec
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