| Titre |
Daddy’s Girls ? : Father-Daughter Relations and the Failures of the Postcolonial Nation-State in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père |
| Type de publication |
Article de périodique |
| Langue principale de la publication |
anglais |
| Date de publication |
2013
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| Auteur |
Anna-Leena TOIVANEN
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| Titre du périodique |
Ariel : A Review of International English Literature
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| Volume ou tome |
44
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| N° de la livraison |
1
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| Pages de ... à (pp. x-x) |
99-126
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| Genre |
article scientifique
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| Pays d'édition |
États-Unis
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| Localisation |
https://www.academia.edu/5693165/
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| Résumé/Présentation |
"[...] In this article, I read the narrative of the failed postcolonial nation-state through the lens of the father-daughter relations in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père (2010). The father-daughter relations are intertwined with the narrative of the postcolonial nation, giving voice to daughterly disillusionment. The texts inscribe the national crisis on a larger map, making it a global rather than simply a local concern. The novels undertake a new attitude toward nationhood while being interested in national issues: their future visions are not in line with the logic of the nation-state but nor are they so with the transnational dimension. Instead, they are equally informed by the unease caused by the failures of the postcolonial nation-state and the unfulfilled hopes of finding in diaspora both a more favorable socio-economic situation and a sense of belonging"
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| Référence complète |
Toivanen, Anna-Leena. Daddy’s Girls ? : Father-Daughter Relations and the Failures of the Postcolonial Nation-State in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père. In : Ariel : A Review of International English Literature, Volume 44, Issue 1, 2013, p.99-126.
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