
Concepts of Home and Belonging and their meaning in the postcolonial fiction "The Thing Around Your Neck" and "The Arrangers of Marriage" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Concepts of Home and Belonging and their meaning in the postcolonial fiction "The Thing Around Your Neck" and "The Arrangers of Marriage" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
About this book
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3, 0, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, language: English, abstract: In terms of Postcolonial Studies "The Thing Around Your Neck" and "The Arrangers of Marriage" by Adichie are interesting stories to analyse because both are connected to history, migration, the search for identity and the consequences of displacement. Adichie as a typical postcolonial writer provides her stories with realistic characters facing identity struggles as well as inner and outer bondages.Due to relocation and heteronomy in the context of imperialism and colonialism and the current development of increasing migration home and belonging were and are important determinants in life.
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