Sunday Reading Task - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hello Readers ;

This blog is a part of our classroom thinking activity. This activity given by Dr.Dilip Barad Sir. I am going to discuss about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her works in this blog .

           Let's ,we have discuss some basic details about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie :-

           Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction. She has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014).

                       In 2008, Adichie was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [who] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature".Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.

1. Did the first talk help you in understanding of postcolonialism?

                Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Said in TED video The Danger of single story. And he srat this session and her speak this line..... I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader, and what I read were British and American children's books.she tells a many short deferent story but this story is incompeted and very dangerous. 

So, The Danger of a Single Story" is really dangerous and terrible for a person to know only single story about culture, people, country, things, places etc.

           Most of the people have a single point of view for such things and they considered it as true and highest. So the possibility of misunderstanding grow from the single story. Adichie give very interesting examples from her own life..Like during childhood she has single story for British-American literature. Then she had a single story for Fide's family and at U.S. Her roommate had.a single story for African people. Her roommate became shocked by the English speech of Adichie because American people think that no one can stand near to their position. Adichie said that how we are treated from childhood to see things only from single visions while there multidimensional way to see the real world. These things are deeply carved on our mind too use only one perspective to look at the world. 

       Adichie puts her speech in a nutshell stating that “to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become” (09:25). Her conclusion responds to these misconceptions by reiterating the importance of spreading diverse stories in opposition to focusing on just one. She professes that the rejection of the single story phenomenon allows one to “regain a kind of paradise” and see people as more than just one incomplete idea .

She ended her speech with this quote,

"When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise".

So, overall she wants to tell that there is no single story for any place, there are many sides of people, places. So we have to see them with different perspectives also.

2. Are the arguments in the seconds talk convincing?

                          In this video Adichie's TED Talk argues that "feminist" isn't a bad word and that everyone should be feminist. She  mentioned her own experiences. And she give to feminine definition her own words.she Say's.she was a schools time at that time her get to highest score. So her become a monitor but sir Say's only for boys become a monitor so second position of boys and he become a monitor in my class. "We Should All Be Feminists is a personal, eloquently-argued essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah". 

                   Here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often-masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

3. What did you like about the third talk?

        In this video , When we think about Truth some people fail to remain true. We are the generation of the 21st century. The Postmodern era in which people are highly civilized. So, in this talk Chimamanda said that speaking lies is speaking lies to yourself.

             I would like the views of Adichie and I truly appreciate her perspective analysis of Post truth. This is a must watch video. She observes that generally, people in the twenty first century has a lot of things around them to get confused or rather to believe in it so easily that sometimes, it may happen that the information they carry may be not pure or correct. So, from the whole broken glass, truth is like the mini pieces of that glass, it doesn't corry the whole potential to be a sole and complete entity .

4. Are these talks bringing any significant change in your way of looking at literature and life ?

                     Yes, these talks bring changes in my way of looking at literature and life .

             The first significant change is to look at others with different aspects not only based on the single story about them. From now I will trust on any matter with my research of that particular matter only. I shouldn't believe what others say. 

             The second thing which I learned from Chimamanda Adichie is we have to be true with ourselves. To be true with others is the second thing. The first thing is to be satisfied and to be true and honest with yourself is very pivotal. 

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