THE WOMAN WRITER IN THE WORK OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.92944240100711

• Palavras-chave: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Woman writer. Feminism.

• Keywords: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Woman writer. Feminism.

• Abstract:

  Due to the social and political relevance of Feminism and Literature and the representativeness and reach of the voice of Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, we chose to analyze her literary and essayistic work. The corpus consists of two short stories from the collection entitled In Your Neck (2017a) and the following essays: Let's all be feminists (2015), To raise feminist children: a manifesto (2017b), The danger of a single story (2019). The aim was to analyze the images of women and women writers that emerge from Adich's texts. The main theoretical references, in addition to Adichie herself, were Virginia Woolf (2019) and Ursula K. Le Guin (1989a; 1989b; 2012; 2019). In analyzing Adichie's short stories and essays, it was found that, through her specific and nomadic autofictional practice, Adichie elaborated a collective image of women as subjects who give themselves the right to speak.