The first type of oppression she experiences is domestic. Kambili is helplessly facing different forms of oppression. Silenced by Fear: “Speaking more with our spirits than with our lips” The novel strikes by its resonating silence, intense descriptions and the slow-paced narration that translates Kambili’s progressive journey to self-consciousness. Through the diverse trajectories of the story’s characters, Adichie explores the bitter aftermaths of colonialism and its resulting violence both at national and intimate levels. The story is narrated from the perspective of fifteen-year-old girl Kambili Achike, who becomes conscious of her voice while observing the instability within her family and country at the same time. In her first novel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie takes us through the life of a well-off Christian family in the midst of Nigeria’s political outbursts in the eighties.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |