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- Title
Raising a New Generation of 'Feminists': Gender and Social Norms in Chimamanda Adichie's Imitations and The Arrangers of Marriage.
- Authors
Mohammad, Sabri; Madi, Noor Abu
- Abstract
This paper focuses on the way females are perceived by the society in our contemporary world in selected short stories of the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie in her works portrayed the underestimating social norms that misleadingly specify the gender roles for both males and females in the Nigerian community and the negative consequences the females have to endure in order to keep the intact image desired by such biased societies. Those gender regulations and the role of the social transformational goals will be utilized in unfolding gender problems in the light of Judith Butler's book Undoing Gender in Adichie's stories Imitations and The Arrangers of Marriage. Adichie sheds light on the dehumanizing treatment of females in such biased societies and the role of the females themselves in challenging those norms by taking serious steps toward transforming them in a way that serves both genders equally. This study will highlight Adichie's objective in building a positive society by raising a new generation of feminists either males or females in the light of her nonfictional work We Should All Be Feminists (2014).
- Subjects
ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-; SOCIAL norms; FEMINISTS; BUTLER, Judith, 1956-; FEMINISM; ARRANGERS of Marriage, The (Short story)
- Publication
Language in India, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 12, p94
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article