Introduction: Unsettling Home and Homeland

Strehle, Susan

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“…Some scholars have examined the female voice and agency (Andrade 2011; Strehle 2008; Taoua 2018; Toivanen 2013), and female bodies (Hillman 2019; Stobie 2012) in Purple Hibiscus . Others have explored the subject of faith and religion (Chennells 2012; Stobie 2010), nationhood (Cooper 2008; Uwakweh 2010), and childhood (Coker 2017; Ouma 2009) in the novel.…”

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“…Accordingly, his perspective is dominated by closure as exemplified in the closed doors, the high walls that barricade the family house both at Enugu and in the village” (197). Strehle (2008) buttresses Udumukwu’s point: “Indeed, Eugene interprets walls as forms of social and moral discipline designed to tame and domesticate” (107). Eugene is invested in disciplinary power, and consequently, the disciplinary undergirds his enunciations of piety and masculinity.…”

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“Omelora”: Orthodox and Disciplinary Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Umezurike

2022

Men and Masculinities

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This paper examines the connections between masculinity and orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus to underscore the intersections of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. Adichie depicts two contradictory figures of Catholic orthodoxy, namely, Eugene and Father Amadi and the consequences of their performances of masculinity. Where Eugene enacts violence on his family in the name of piety, Father Amadi demonstrates receptivity to human suffering as crucial to piety. I draw on the ideas of Michel Foucault and Raewyn Connell to demonstrate how discipline, control, and male power operate in the domestic sphere and their effects on subjectivities and bodies. Adichie’s portrayal of Eugene articulates a model of disciplinary power undergirded by orthodoxy. Eugene, therefore, dramatizes orthodox masculinity. I argue that Adichie envisions a redefinition of masculinity by presenting Father Amadi as an alternative to Eugene’s enactments of orthodoxy. I conclude that Adichie provides us with an understanding of how people can deploy violence in the name of piety and religion. Indeed, Adichie emphasizes the need to redefine masculinity cognizant of the dignity of all humanity.

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“Omelora”: Orthodox and Disciplinary Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Umezurike

2022

Men and Masculinities

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“…This chapter will start with a critical analysis of the concept of nation, nationhood and nationalism, which is crucial in the decision of "homeland," "roots," "originality," "belonging," and "non-belonging." To discuss the concept of nation and nationalism, I will refer to the texts of Benedict Anderson (1983), Partha Chatterjee (1993), Anthony Smith (1991), Anibal Quijano (2000), Masao Miyoshi (1993), Zygmunt Bauman (2001), Arjun Appadurai (1996) and Susan Strehle (2008). After this, the chapter will get into the deliberation of the different ways by which nationalism is a continuous process of the construction of new "imagined homelands."…”

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(Dis)locating Homeland: "In-betweeness" in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Taslima Nasreen's French Lover

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This paper relies on an analytical reading of the novels French Lover (2002) and Brick Lane (2004), written by Taslima Nasreen and Monica Ali respectively, to review the meaning of homeland from the perspective of Third World, transnational, South Asian brown women. Fundamentally, using the framework of feminist, postcolonial, and transnational theory, the above mentioned literary texts are studied alongside the theoretical concepts of the "Nueva Conciencia Mestiza" and "Coatlicue State" proposed in Gloria Anzaldúa"s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) through the comparative analytical approach. This paper will explore a debate which ranges from the modern concept of the nation to the production of "imagined homelands" at a transnational level, which is based on the same nationalist theory. It will examine the "othered" position of the women within and in-between these "imagined homelands." Furthermore, the research will look into the mechanism of survival adopted by transnational, South Asian, brown women within/in-between these "imagined homelands," who view silence as their strategy to move from the position of the "other" to the "conscious other." Finally, it will explore an alternative idea of homeland as an "in-betweeness" which is proposed in the novels: "border(home)land" opposed to "imagined homelands."

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Longing Elsewhere: Helen Oyeyemi

Leetsch

2021

Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing

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Introduction: Unsettling Home and Homeland

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“Omelora”: Orthodox and Disciplinary Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

“Omelora”: Orthodox and Disciplinary Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

(Dis)locating Homeland: "In-betweeness" in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Taslima Nasreen's French Lover

Longing Elsewhere: Helen Oyeyemi

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