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Purple Hibiscus
Key information
of Author
Her name is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and they were born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977.
She grew up on a university of Nigeria's campus where her father was a professor, and her mother was the first female Registrar.
She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left to the US when she was 19 to continue her education on a different path.
she graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science.
Adichie has written 11 novels which have been translated into 30 languages.
Adichie has written 11 novels which have been translated into 30 languages.
her work covers similar themes relating to expressions of Nigerian culture in relation to colonial rule.
Her work is also personal, drawing from her own history and presenting relationships as complex and dynamic.
Key information
about of text
Characters
Enugu
Jaja
Father (Eugene)
Mother (Beatrice)
Father Benedict
Kambili
Ade Coker
Kevin
Schoolgirls
Chinwe Jideze
Enzine
Sisi
Celeste
Nsukka
Amaka
Oboiro
Chima
Father Amadi
Aunty Ifoema
Ifediora (dead)
Philippa
Main Events
1) Military Coup
2) December celebration
3) Nsukka visit
4) Papa-Nnukwu arrival (and death)
5) Return to Enugu and
severe punishment
Hospitalises Kambili
6) Return back to Nsukka
7) Father Amadi and Aunty leaving
8) Father Dies. Jaja imprisoned
9) Resolution
Settings
Enugu
Nsukka
Themes
Religion - A focal point of the story. Effect of colonialism. Morals
Her work covers similar themes relating to expressions of Nigerian culture in relation to colonial rule.
Colonialism - Amaka's defiance and effect on Nigerian culture.
Education
power imbalence
Abuse - the children are abused by Eugene and this could show a power imbalance.
Key information
about the context
Purpose
Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country, especially questions relating to the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated people, and themes such as racialism and colonialism.
Time
Written in 2003
Takes place in 1980s
Following the bloody civil war of 1960s
Suffered several more violent coups.
Place
Set in Post-colonial Nigeria