Womanism and Patriarchy in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.

Abstract

Womanism, as a subset of African feminism, provides a framework for assessing the works of African female authors critically. The work of Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian female writer and author of Purple Hibiscus, is examined using Ogunyemi's womanist philosophy. Through thorough examination, a womanist reading of this novel aims to find the many and related ways this female author articulates and demonstrates womanist ideology in the above-mentioned work. The experiment's purpose was to examine if this female author's womanist ideas persisted. The findings of this study are based on a careful reading of the text, with an emphasis on literary elements including characterization, narrative approach, tone, mood, and setting. Adichie's work clearly tends to resist and usurp patriarchy, as seen by the novel's analysis. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie echoes womanist longing as well. On the other side, the author tends toward the ultimate womanist ideal of union and survival for man, woman, and kid.

Keywords

• womanism
• patriarchy
• feminism