Circumventing Cultural Reification: A Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’S the Thing Around Your Neck

• Authors: Fouad Mami
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie argues in her 2009 collection of short stories that in as much as brutal dictatorship together with extreme underdevelopment propel young Nigerians for immigration, inaccurate and often scandalizing media portrayal also has nonetheless an important share in the sad drama. Her drama proposes way of circumventing cultural reification caused by inaccurate media representation.

Keywords

EN

cultural reification; dictatorship; immigration; underdevelopment

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 215-225

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Fouad Mami

• University of Adrar-Algeria

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0025