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Negotiating Silenced Histories and Fragmented Selves A Cultural, Subaltern, and Psychoanalytic Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Fiction

Author(s) Dr. Vaishali Shivkumar Biradar
Country India
Abstract This article offers a critical examination of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s major novels through the combined lenses of Subaltern Theory, Cultural Theory, and Psychoanalysis. Adichie’s works, notably Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah, illuminate the contested terrains of postcolonial identity, gendered subalternity, and fractured subjectivity within the Nigerian and diasporic contexts. The analysis foregrounds how Adichie negotiates cultural memory, colonial violence, and gendered silences, while dramatizing psychic conflicts emerging from the clash between tradition and modernity. Drawing on theorists such as Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, and Sigmund Freud, this study demonstrates that Adichie’s narrative strategies destabilize monolithic constructions of identity and nation, giving voice to historically marginalized experiences. Her fiction emerges as a complex site of cultural translation, affective negotiation, and political critique, offering nuanced interventions in debates around subalternity, hybridity, and the politics of memory.
Keywords Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Subaltern Theory, Cultural Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postcolonial Fiction, Nigerian Literature, Gender Studies
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Published In Volume 16, Issue 3, July-September 2025
Published On 2025-08-13
DOI https://doi.org/10.71097/IJSAT.v16.i3.7734
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9w9q3
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