Nair, Chitra Thrivikraman. "Negotiation of Socio-Ethnic Spaces: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s African National and Ethnic Identity", Matatu (Journal for African Culture and Change) 45,1 (2014): 203-215, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211093_013

This essay examines the Nigerian-born Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun as an articulation of Biafran and Igbo negotiation of a space for themselves in the geo-political landscape in Nigeria after the Nigeria–Biafra civil war. The novel also conveys the paradox under-lying the novel's concerns. Adichie, while affirming the need to preserve and maintain ethno-political Igbo identity, seems to argue in favour of hybridity via the white character Richard. Strongly rooted in the Igbo tradition, Half of a Yellow Sun brilliantly captures the lives of the characters caught in the vortex of the ethnic, cultural, and religious tensions unleashed by the war. Adichie explores tribal disputes against the background of Nigeria's national history, and how the characters struggle with the issues of love, class, race, family, and profession against a wartime backdrop.

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