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Theology of Liberation in Chimamanda’s Purple Hibiscus
Uzukwu, Gesila Nneka (2023): Theology of Liberation in Chimamanda’s Purple Hibiscus, in: Seyram Amenyedzi, Yosi Apollos Maton, und Marceline L. Yele (Hrsg.), SANKOFA : Liberation Theologies of West African Women (Circle Jubilee Volume 1), Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, S. 63–81, doi: 10.20378/irb-93208.
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SANKOFA : Liberation Theologies of West African Women (Circle Jubilee Volume 1)
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2023
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978-3-86309-963-3
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English
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Critical discourses in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus have generally engaged this important postcolonial work from the perspectives of colonial history, gender dynamism, deconstruction of its narratives, and the literary/linguistic agenda of its characters, plots, and dialogues. Departing from these dominant approaches, the present study appropriates the discourses, worldviews, and values of Purple Hibiscus through the prism of liberation theology. It examines the theological motifs in Purple Hibiscus in critical conversation to patriarchy, colonialism, and sexism. Grounded in liberation methodology of African women theologians, the study offers new perspectives in Adichie’s representation of radical female characters, and their traumatic quest for liberation in patriarchal and post-patriarchal spaces. Through these feminine encounters, Purple Hibiscus provides a theological guide for the task and practice of African liberation theology
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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | 1977- | Purple hibiscus
Befreiungstheologie
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Chimamanda Adichie
Patriarchy
liberation theologie
Christianity
Religion
Purple Hibiscus
postcolonialism
violence
patriarchal resistance
Gender
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Contribution to an Articlecollection
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February 5, 2024
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https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/93208