Journal articles: 'Half a Yellow Sun'

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Anionwu, Elizabeth. "Half of a Yellow Sun." Nursing Standard 22, no. 14 (December 12, 2007): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.22.14.29.s44.

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Da Costa, Andréa Moraes. "RAÇA, FEMINISMO E NACIONALISMO EM HALF OF A YELLOW SUN." Estudos Linguísticos e Literários 1, no. 66 (September 26, 2020): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.9771/ell.v1i66.36130.

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No século XXI, produções literárias africanas têm se configurado comumente como fontes significativas para auxiliar a compreensão de causas e consequências de eventos históricos. Dentre elas, destaca-se o romance Half of a Yellow Sun (2006a), de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Nessa obra, Adichie aborda problemáticas vividas por seus personagens durante o período da Guerra de Biafra, na Nigéria. Este artigo objetiva ilustrar alguns dos entrelaçamentos literários arquitetados por Adichie que suscitam questões de raça, feminismo e nacionalismo. Assim, as discussões levantadas aqui são amparadas nos Estudos Pós-coloniais a partir de pressupostos de Thomas Bonnici (2000), dentre outros. Como uma de suas conclusões, o artigo sublinha a importância do caráter interventivo da escrita pós-colonial, ao propiciar, por exemplo, reflexões acerca de eventos negativos do passado, para que não se reprisem.

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Adebayo Omotunde, Samuel, Samuel Alaba Akinwotu, and Esther Morayo Dada. "Pragmatic Functions of Questions in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 12, no. 3 (June 30, 2021): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.12n.3.p.12.

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Questioning is an instructional process that is not only central to verbal interaction in the classroom but also essential to negotiation of meaning in discourse. Existing studies dealing with functions of questions have only identified few functions which questions perform in discourse probably because the scholars who worked on them have not explored varied situations and contexts which necessitate asking questions whose functions are totally different from the ones already identified in the literature. Hence, the current research investigates the pragmatic functions of questions in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. The major advantage of using this source of data is that, it, unlike previous studies which investigate data from premeditated sources, this source provides rich and varied naturally-occurring contexts for asking different questions which perform different functions. The study is driven by insight from the concept of pragmatic competence. On the whole, the research identified nine novel pragmatic functions of questions which have not been documented in the literature. These include questions to indicate annoyance, questions to foster interpersonal relationship, questions to persuade somebody to do something, questions for showing disapproval and so on. These findings implicate that in a bid to build on a learner’s competence in a particular language, such a learner should be introduced to the importance of contexts in determining the function which a particular question is meant to perform in any communicative encounter.

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Morve, Roshan K. "Representation of History in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006." Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2015): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v2i1.291.

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This study deals with the conflict of Nigerian Biafran War 6 July, 1960-15 January, 1967 as represented in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). The study attempts to address the following four questions: first, what are the causes-effects of Biafran/Civil war? Second, why Nigerians have been suffering during the wartime? Third, how does the representation of Nigerian history enable understanding of the post-colonial issues? And final, what is the role of conflict in Nigerian history? In order to understand this conflict, the study addresses the detailed analysis of war conflict, ethnic conflict, class conflict, military conflict and eco-political conflict. The post-colonial approach becomes one of the ways of engaging the theoretical understanding of the novel Half of a Yellow Sun. In sum up, the novel is located with the issues of marginality, history and conflict, which interrogates through post-colonial theoretical formations and the six-phase structure of war novels.

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Pyeon, Jay Gill. "Socio-Historical Context and Themes in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." Journal of Modern British & American Language & Literature 36, no. 4 (November 30, 2018): 109–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21084/jmball.2018.11.36.4.109.

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Roshan K., Morve. "Representation of History in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)." Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature 1, no. 3 (December 30, 2014): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v1i3.363.

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Anyaduba. "Genocide and Hubristic Masculinity in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun." Research in African Literatures 50, no. 2 (2019): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.50.2.07.

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Strehle, Susan. "Producing Exile: Diasporic Vision in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 57, no. 4 (2011): 650–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2011.0086.

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KARA, Gökçen. "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’nin Half of a Yellow Sun Adlı Eserine Yeni Tarihselci Bir Yaklaşım." JOURNAL OF HISTORY AND FUTURE 6, no. 2 (June 22, 2020): 376–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.21551/jhf.743597.

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Okeugo, Oluchi Chris, and Obioha Jane Onyinye. "Critical Evaluation on Parodied feminism in Adichie’s half of A Yellow Sun and Americanah." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (2019): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.51.5.

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Donnelly, Michael A. "The Bildungsroman and Biafran Sovereignty in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun." Law & Literature 30, no. 2 (December 7, 2017): 245–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1535685x.2017.1392025.

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Rideout, Jennifer. "Toward a New Nigerian Womanhood: Woman as Nation in Half of a Yellow Sun." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 36, no. 2 (April 1, 2014): 71–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5213.

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Guarracino, Serena. "Tales of War for the ‘Third Generation’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." Le Simplegadi, no. 15 (April 2016): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17456/simple-27.

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Aluya, Isaiah, and Edem Samuel. "The semantics of incongruous collocations in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 19, no. 2 (November 7, 2018): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v19i2.8.

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Ruth S. Wenske. "Adichie in Dialogue with Achebe: Balancing Dualities in Half of a Yellow Sun." Research in African Literatures 47, no. 3 (2016): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.05.

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Jilek, Barbara. "Doing Motherhood, Doing Home: Mothering as Home-Making Practice in Half of a Yellow Sun." Humanities 9, no. 3 (September 8, 2020): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9030107.

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Home and motherhood are tightly interwoven, particularly in the dominant conceptualizations of home as a physical and emotional refuge from the public world. However, a closer look into these concepts helps question the naturalization of both motherhood and home, revealing them as shaped by complex lived experiences and relations instead. I argue that such a rethinking of home and motherhood beyond essentialist discourse is prominent in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s postcolonial novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Drawing on concepts and theories from the fields of gender studies and geography, and taking into account the postcolonial, Nigerian context of the novel, I address how Adichie’s 2006 piece of historical fiction thematizes the intersection point of motherhood and home as a relational practice. Adichie provides alternative conceptualizations of motherhood and home through her focus on performative, ritualized mothering practices that also function as relational home-making practices and that stretch beyond gender and biological relations. Through the central ambivalence that emerges in the novel when the female protagonist chooses and practices a traditional mother role but simultaneously does not correspond to the dominant Nigerian ideal of a mother, Adichie destabilizes binary views of both home and of motherhood.

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Wenske, Ruth S. "Beyond the Single Story of African Realism: Narrative Embedding in Half of a Yellow Sun." ariel: A Review of International English Literature 51, no. 4 (2020): 125–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2020.0030.

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Madueke, Sylvia Ijeoma. "On Translating Postcolonial African Writing: French Translation of Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies 11, no. 1 (August 6, 2019): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21992/tc29446.

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Like many postcolonial African novels written in English, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) written by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie presents many instances of literary hybridity. This paper focuses on these occurrences of hybridity and examines their translation from English into French. The paper considers various manifestations of hybridity in the novel and compares them with the novel’s French translation to illuminate translation strategies while analyzing the implications of key translation choices. This paper emphasizes that the translator made a significant effort to employ ethnocentric strategies to preserve the resonances of the author’s culture, especially instances of vernacular language inherent in the original text. The paper also notes seemingly arbitrary choices that exoticize and homogenize the translated text. Despite these instances, this paper concludes that the translation managed to maintain a balance between the source text and the target language.

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Abba. "Remediating Biafra: Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun as a Symbolic Vehicle of Postwar Reconciliation." Research in African Literatures 51, no. 4 (2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.51.4.01.

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., Husnawati, Amrin Saragih, and Zainuddin . "IDEOLOGICAL SHIFT OF TEXT AND THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSLATION IDEOLOGY IN THE NOVEL “HALF OF YELLOW SUN”." LINGUISTIK TERAPAN 18, no. 2 (September 6, 2021): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/lt.v18i2.27889.

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ABSTRACTThis research paper concerned with the analysis of factor affecting ideological shift of text in the translation of literary work. As the data source, a novel entitled 'half of yellow sun' a work of Chimamanda Adichie was analyzed. The analysis was specified to clauses taken from the English and Indonesian version of the novel, as the data. Further, the researcher applied descriptive qualitative approach in collecting and analyzing the data. Halliday’s theory of metafunction, specified on the analysis of transitivity system was used as main theory. Moreover, the theory of ideology in translation was adopted in the analysis, as causal factor to see how translation ideology cause the ideological shift of text in translation. Then, the result of the analysis revealed that the intermetafunctional shift is the most significant category found in the text (90.24%), while the intra-metafunctional shift was only found once (9.75%). It proved that there were significant change of ideology of text showed by the changing of the process of transitivity system. Morever, the result of analysis releaved that, the ideological shifts of text were mostly affected by domestication ideology with percentages 78.05%, and foreignization ideology by percentages 21.95% or equal to a quarter of the whole clauses. It means that the translator produced the translation based on her goal and point of view and ideology of target language's culture and trying to make the text as closely as possible to the target readers’ language. It means the ideological shift of text were affected by translation ideology in which the translator produced the translation based on her goal and point of view and ideology of target language's culture and trying to make the text as closely as possible to the target readers’ language.Keywords: Systemic Functonal Linguistics, Translation, Discourse Analysis, Ideological Shift, literary work

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Yokossi, Daniel T. "An Interpersonal Meaning Study of two Excerpts from Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun: A Systemic Functional Approach." International Journal of Linguistics 10, no. 3 (July 4, 2018): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v10i3.13362.

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Using the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this article seeks to carry out a theoretically founded analysis of two extracts from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun to decode both her world view and ideology behind her writing for a better understanding of the whole novel with a view to making her message accessible to the laymen. The quantitative research method employed by the study has helped to recap the linguistic features of the analyzed excerpts in a statistical table paving the way to their interpretation via the qualitative method. The study has interestingly arrived at impressive results. Among others, it is to be highlighted that Adichie has written Half of a Yellow Sun to get important messages across. To descend to particulars, the analysis has unveiled that unkindness, wickedness, violence, heartlessness and mistrustfulness are some of the evils that the Nigeria-Biafra war has resulted into. As a result, by writing this award winning novel, Adichie aims at giving advice to her contemporaries and, more precisely, to the Nigerian current and future political leaders for the country brighter future. Adichie’s selections of modality in the studied excerpts reveal the possibility of new developments of the bygone civil war. The high rate of circumstantial adjuncts has contributed to improve the texts experiential density, and complements other strategies used by Adichie to make her novel very well written in mode. Indeed, these are just some of the results the present research work has arrived at; more remain to be discovered in the section devoted to the interpretation of findings in this paper. The study has interestingly opened up to such further research horizons as experiential meaning, textual meaning, pragmatic transfer, code switching, code mixing to name but just a few of them.

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Amah, Munachim. "Portrayal of Igbo Culture in the Film Adaptations of Things Fall Apart and Half of a Yellow Sun." Critical Arts 34, no. 4 (March 20, 2020): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2020.1726980.

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Gavin, Michael. "Literatures of the New Realism: Anil's Ghost, Half of a Yellow Sun, and the Problem of Ethnic Conflict." Intertexts 25, no. 1-2 (2021): 27–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/itx.2021.0002.

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Muhammad, Aisha Mustapha. "Divergent Struggles for Identity and Safeguarding Human Values: A Postcolonial Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 11, no. 2 (May 22, 2018): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v11.n2.p1.

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In the novel Adichie uncovers the characters’ struggles based on the loss of Identity and Human values which is basically the result of the Nigerian civil war. The characters strive to bring back what they lost due to the war. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born much later after the Nigerian civil war of 1966-1969. Chimamanda Adichie had the interest to revive history of the war; she used her imaginative talent in bringing what she hadn’t experienced. The novel Half of a Yellow Sun is a literary work which uses the theory of post-colonialism or post-colonial studies, it is a term that is used to analyze and explain the legacy of colonialism through the study of a particular book. Colonialism did not happen during the colonial era only but extended to after independence of the countries that were colonized. The novel Half of a Yellow Sun shows the effect of colonialism after independence of Nigeria. Adichie believes that by bringing back the issue of the war, the growing generation would understand more about the war. According to her in Nigeria the history taught in the primary and secondary schools is not complete, some parts were removed and nobody is allowed to talk about it. So through the novel, she tries to go through history to see what has happened, so that she can make the young generation understand history better. The book opens with a poem by Chinua Achebe about the Nigerian civil war.

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McDaniel, Gary L., Donna C. Fare, Willard T. Witte, and Phillip C. Flanagan. "Yellow Nutsedge Control and Nursery Crop Tolerance with Manage as Affected by Adjuvant Choice." Journal of Environmental Horticulture 17, no. 3 (September 1, 1999): 114–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24266/0738-2898-17.3.114.

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Abstract Adjuvants combined with one-half rate (18 g ai/ha, 0.26 oz ai/A) of Manage (MON 12051, halosulfuron) were evaluated for phytotoxicity on five species of landscape plants grown in containers and for effectiveness of yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus L.) control. Adjuvants tested at 0.25 and 0.5% (v/v) were: X-77 (non-ionic), Scoil (methylated soybean seed oil), Sun-It II (methylated sunflower seed oil), Agri-Dex (paraffin crop oil concentrate), and Action “99” (non-ionic organosilicone). Manage combined with each adjuvant injured Japanese holly (I. crenata Thunb. ‘Bennett's Compacta’), forsythia (Forsythia x intermedia Zab. ‘Lynwood Gold’), green liriope (Liriope muscari Bailey ‘Big Blue’), and weigela (Weigela florida Bunge ‘Pink Lady’), but not ‘Blue Girl’ holly (Ilex x meserveae S.Y. Hu ‘Blue Girl’). Manage with Scoil produced moderate phytotoxicity on forsythia and weigela and reduced growth of all landscape plants. Manage plus Action “99” caused severe phytotoxicity to weigela and reduced growth on all plants tested. Manage plus Agri-Dex treatment resulted in moderate to severe growth reduction to all plants, with severe marginal necrosis of foliage on forsythia and weigela. Manage with Sun-It II resulted in less growth reduction and fewer phytotoxic symptoms of the test species, compared to other adjuvant plus Manage combinations. Initially, foliar chlorosis was observed on all species except ‘Blue Girl’ holly with the Manage plus Sun-It II treatment, but most plants had recovered by 8 weeks after treatment (WAT). Yellow nutsedge control at 4WAT was greater when Manage (18 g ai/ha, 0.26 oz/A) was combined with Scoil, Sun-It II, Agri-Dex, or Action “99” adjuvants. By 8WAT, Manage combined with Sun-It II resulted in 98–100% control of nutsedge. Manage plus the adjuvants Scoil or Sun-It II resulted in superior yellow nutsedge control compared to X-77, Action “99”, or Agri-Dex and had little effect on growth of these landscape plants.

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Olusola, LAWAL M. "Language, Gender and Power in Chinua Achebe’s—There Was a Country and Chimamanda Adiche’s—Half of a Yellow Sun." Global Research in Higher Education 2, no. 2 (April 17, 2019): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/grhe.v2n2p82.

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The interconectivity of language in the analysis of ideological schemas of gender and power is remarkable. In every piece of texts, language is employed as an expression of ideology. Hence, there is no linguistic expression that is ideologically empty. Language is inspirable from the gender and power preoccupations of Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country and Chimamanda Adiche’s Half of a Yellow Sun. In this paper, it is made succinct that both Achebe and Adichie deploy their English linguistic prowess with their traditional Igbo language colorations as an expression of power and gender discourses. Indeed, while it is deduced that Achebe, through the use of rhetorical and proverbial expressions, pursued a somewhat patriarchal gender and power ideological inclination in his memoir; Adichie, in her use of sublime language, exhibited her feminine gender belief in a rather subtle manner. Evidently, the two authors’ use of the English language with a heavy Igbo language influence is an index to the fact that language, apart from being a powerful means of expression of a writer’s ideological idiosyncrasy, is a source of power on its own; an instrument which both Achebe and Adichie deployed to show their different gender inclinations and power discourses in the selected texts.

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Ike, Onyeka. "The utilization of literary techniques in Flora Nwapa’s Never Again and Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts 7, no. 1-2 (April 15, 2020): 129–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejotmas.v7i1-2.9.

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This research investigates the utilization of literary techniques in two Nigerian historical fictions: Never Again by Flora Nwapa and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. Nwapa and Adichie are two creative writers belonging to two different generations of Nigerian writers. While the former is of the first, the latter is of the third generation. In their two different novels in focus, it is observed that they deployed diverse literary techniques in variegated fashions to achieve the same goal – creating fictional works that deal with the sensitive issues of the Nigerian Civil War. Using new historicism (NH) as its theoretical anchor, this study uses historical-analytic and literary methods to posit that no two creative writers apply literary techniques in an identical manner even when their subject matter is the same. Rather, the deployment of literary tools is usually a function of talent, training, idiosyncrasies, orientation and propensities of a particular author. It is, of course, the patterns of such deployments that create and confer identity and uniqueness to various writers across the globe, such that when a section of the work of a known author is read, his or her name comes to mind. Using New Historicism as a critical searchlight, this paper evaluates compares and contrasts the utilization of literary techniques in the two novels aforementioned. Both writers have utilized literary elements in various ways to foreground and portray the cancerous issues of corruption, ethnicity, nepotism and avarice – the issues that led to the unfortunate and devastating Civil War, and till today continues to limit the progress of Nigeria. Keywords: Literary techniques, NH, Never Again, Nigerian Civil War, Half of a Yellow Sun

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Dodo-Williams, Toyin, and Enrico Milano. "Half of a Yellow Sun or the Quest for (and Repression of) New Boundaries in Post-Colonial Nigeria: An International Law Analysis." Pólemos 12, no. 2 (September 25, 2018): 251–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2018-0016.

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Abstract Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel written by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The title of the book takes its reference from the flag of the former, short-lived, Republic of Biafra, which consisted of a horizontal tricolour of red, black, and green, with a golden rising sun over a golden bar. The author unfolds to the reader the impact and the ugliness of the Biafran war of independence as it meanders through the lives of the interdependent main characters: Ugwu, Olanna, Kainene, Odenigbo and Richard. The events that climaxed into the civil war gradually tore apart the day-to-day routine serenity of the main characters, requiring continuous adjustment in the lives of each character to the reality of war. The harrowing experience of the war drastically changed their lives. The present contribution draws inspiration from thes novel to engage with the construction and definition of social, political and legal boundaries in post-colonial Nigeria, focussing in particular on the relevance and impact of international law norms and principles in the events that unfolded between 1967 and 1970.

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Chukwu, Ephraim. "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun: a symbolic presentation of the British failed mission in Biafra." OGIRISI: a New Journal of African Studies 12, no. 1 (August 2, 2016): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/og.v12i1.11.

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Olaoluwa, Senayon. "Synmemory: civil war victimhood and the balance of tales in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Habila’s Measuring Time." Social Dynamics 43, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2017.1348038.

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George, Sandhya. "The Shifting Paradigms of Africa in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 6, no. 2 (February 14, 2021): 59–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2020.v06.i02.011.

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George, Sandhya. "The Shifting Paradigms of Africa in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 6, no. 2 (February 14, 2021): 59–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2021.v06.i02.011.

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McDaniel, G. L., D. C. Fare, W. T. Witte, and P. C. Flanagan. "017 Influence of Surfactants on Manage Herbicide Control of Nutsedge and Nursery Crop Tolerance." HortScience 34, no. 3 (June 1999): 443E—444. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.34.3.443e.

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Research was conducted to compare non-ionic, paraffin-based crop oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, and organosilicone surfactants combined with Manage (MON 12051, holosulfuron) applied at a reduced rate for yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus) control efficiency and evaluation of phytotoxicity to five container-grown ornamental species. Manage at 0.018 kg a.i./ha was combined with 0.25% or 0.5% (v/v) of the following surfactants: X-77, Scoil, Action “99”, Sun It II, or Agri-Dex. Yellow nutsedge tubers (10 per 3.8-L container) were planted into containers along with the following nursery crops: `Lynnwood Gold' forsythia, `Big Blue' liriope, `Pink Lady' weigela, `Blue Girl' Chinese holly, and `Bennett's Compacta' Japanese holly. Treatments were applied 5 weeks after potting on 13 June 1998 and phytotoxicity ratings taken 4 and 8 weeks later and growth measured after 8 weeks. Sun It II provided the most-effective nutsedge control without reducing growth and causing minimal phytotoxicity to the ornamental plants tested. X-77 (the recommended surfactant for Manage) provided only moderate nutsedge control. Efficient nutsedge control can be accomplished with Manage at one-half the recommended rate when combined with the correct surfactant. Some temporary phytotoxicity symptoms can be expected and a slight overall growth reduction is possible, depending on the surfactant selected.

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Coffey. "“She Is Waiting”: Political Allegory and the Specter of Secession in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun." Research in African Literatures 45, no. 2 (2014): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.45.2.63.

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Akudinobi, Jude G. "Biyi Bandele, director. Half of a Yellow Sun. 2013. 111minutes. English, with French, Igbo, and Hausa. Nigeria/U.K. Monterey Media. $26.99." African Studies Review 58, no. 2 (September 2015): 279–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2015.62.

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Jacobsen, Thomas. "Kandinsky's Questionnaire Revisited: Fundamental Correspondence of Basic Colors and Forms?" Perceptual and Motor Skills 95, no. 3 (December 2002): 903–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.2002.95.3.903.

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Kandinsky postulated a fundamental correspondence between color and form. Using a variant of his historical questionnaire. 200 (92 men, 108 women) nonartist university students were divided into two groups and asked to assign the colors yellow, red, and blue to the triangle, square, and circle in a one-to-one fashion. One group worked under a mere color-form correspondence instruction, the other under an aesthetic-correspondence one, i.e., this latter group was asked to make the most beautiful color-form assignment. Participants' assignments showed a clear, stable group preference. About half of the students assigned red to the triangle, blue to the square, and yellow to the circle, respectively. This preferred assignment stood regardless of variation in instruction. Frequently, world knowledge associations were stated in the rationale for an assignment choice. The red triangle resembled a traffic sign, a warning triangle, and the yellow circle resembled the sun. Kandinsky's assignment, however, was the least preferred one. It is argued that color-form assignments as well as the motivation to produce them are due to a multitude of factors. World knowledge, education, historical change, societal, group-specific, and individual leitmotifs are all influences.

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Alou, Yacoubou. "Emerging Themes in Chimamanda N. Adichie’s Fiction: Ethnic and National Identity Narratives in Half of a Yellow Sun and “A Private Experience”." IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 22, no. 2 (February 2017): 105–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/0837-220203105109.

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Etim, Eyoh. "“Herstory” versus “history”: A motherist rememory in Akachi Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones and Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." Cogent Arts & Humanities 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 1728999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1728999.

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Maya Ganapathy. "Sidestepping the Political “Graveyard of Creativity”: Polyphonic Narratives and Reenvisioning the Nation-State in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun." Research in African Literatures 47, no. 3 (2016): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.06.

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Silva, Simone Batista da. "Transculturalidade no ensino de língua inglesa." Letras & Letras 35, especial (October 23, 2019): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/ll63-v35nesp2019-7.

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Este artigo relata trabalho pedagógico realizado em turma de licenciatura em Letras – Português/Inglês de uma Universidade pública do Rio de Janeiro com proposta de incluir no currículo culturas anglófonas não hegemônicas. As bases teóricas foram a Transculturalidade e a Complexidade, marcadas pelo movimento entre culturas com proposta dialógica. No trabalho desenvolvido, os textos básicos foram o livro Half of a yellow Sun, publicado em 2006 pela escritora nigeriana Chimamanda Adichie, e a produção cinematográfica britânico-nigeriana, de 2013, adaptação da obra literária original. Dentre os resultados, pude perceber mudança de perspectivas dos alunos quanto às culturas anglófonas de países não hegemônicos, em um movimento de ampliação de sua condição humana, para gerar atitudes revestidas pelo olhar transcultural de entender que estamos complexamente ligados às outras culturas dos diversos povos.

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Aboh, Romanus, and Happiness Uduk. "The Pragmatics of Nigerian English in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Novels." Journal of Language and Education 2, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 6–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2411-7390-2016-2-3-6-13.

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There are relatively few studies that have examined the pragmatization of Nigerian English in Adichie’s novelistic oeuvre. This study seeks to fill that gap by undertaking a pragmatic analysis of Nigerian English in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah in order to account for the pragmatic relation between utterances and meaning explication. The theory adopted for this study is pragmatic context. The analysis indicates that the use of English as reflected in the novels is pragmatically oriented which, by and large, helps elucidate the particular use of English in the non-literary situation in Nigeria. Also, the analysis demonstrates that the contexts, in which these Nigerian English expressions occur, significantly, draw from Nigeria’s sociocultural milieu, and the sociocultural milieu shapes the meaning or sense discourse participants squeeze out of utterances in interactive situations.

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Chukwumah, Ignatius, and Cassandra Ifeoma Nebeife. "Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives." Matatu 49, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 241–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04902001.

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Abstract Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories written in English which capture, wholly or in part, the Igbo cosmology and experience in their discursive formations. The present study of such modern Igbo Nigerian narratives as Okpewho’s The Last Duty (1976), Iyayi’s Heroes (1986), Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), and other novels and short stories applies René Girard’s theory of the pharmakos (Greek for scapegoat) to this background of persecution, particularly as it subtends the condition of the Igbo in postcolonial Nigeria in the early years of independence.

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Matthew Lecznar. "(Re)Fashioning Biafra: Identity, Authorship, and the Politics of Dress in Half of a Yellow Sun and Other Narratives of the Nigeria-Biafra War." Research in African Literatures 47, no. 4 (2016): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.4.07.

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Hillman. "The Language of Bodies: Violence and the Refusal of Judgment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun." Research in African Literatures 50, no. 1 (2019): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.50.1.06.

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Norridge. "Sex as Synecdoche: Intimate Languages of Violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love." Research in African Literatures 43, no. 2 (2012): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.43.2.18.

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LAWAL, Musibau O. "Gender and Power in Selected Works of Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie: An Analytic Reappraisal." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 2, no. 2 (June 29, 2020): 270–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v2i2.319.

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Indeed, gender and power discourses as ideological concessions have been investigated and reviewed from various perspectives by different scholars in the works of Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie. This paper offers a reappraisal of the views of the scholars essentially on the issues of gender and power in the selected works of Achebe and Adichie, viz: Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and There Was a Country and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun. The work, therefore, gives a reappraisal of the thoughts of scholars and presents a coalescence of their views, offering a distillation and filtration of the ideas they proffer on the selected works and projecting a comparatively valid arbitration and settlement where the views of the scholars are going inordinately radical and amorphous.The paper views that the opinion of the scholars on the discourses of gender and power specifically on the selected works of Achebe and Adichie are incongruous and asymmetrical while some of the views are inordinately on the verge of radicalism. This work, however, proffers a comparatively balanced perspective on the diverse views of the scholars with a view to navigating an even horizon.

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Prado, Priscila Finger do, and Letícia Freire de Moraes. "A elaboração do passado pela escrita." Caderno Espaço Feminino 32, no. 2 (February 29, 2020): 280–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/cef-v32n2-2019-14.

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Linda Hutcheon (1991) elaborou o conceito de metaficção historiográfica, o qual apresenta uma problematização da história por meio da reapresentação do passado pelas verdades plurais que negam uma verdade única e incontestável. No romance Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), da escritora nigeriana Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, é possível perceber, na forma como está estruturado, várias perspectivas para um mesmo acontecimento histórico, a partir das mudanças de foco narrativo. Tal construção fornece ao leitor uma reflexão sobre o perigo da criação de estereótipos pela crença em uma única história sobre determinado lugar, pessoa ou circunstância. Diante da reflexão tecida sobre a relação entre a ideia crítica e a organização do romance por várias vozes, pretende-se analisar a voz de um personagem desse romance em particular que desenvolve, no decorrer da narrativa, uma necessidade de se apropriar da história e de construí-la pela sua perspectiva, usando, para isso, a escrita. Pretende-se elaborar essa análise pela perspectiva dos estudos de Gagnebin (2006) sobre a tarefa histórica de conservação da memória pela necessidade da escrita como forma de elaboração do passado. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: O Perigo de uma História Única. Elaborar o Passado. Memória e Escrita.

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Fallahi, Esmaeil, Bahar Fallahi, Bahman Shafii, and Mohammad E. Amiri. "Bloom and Harvest Dates, Fruit Quality Attributes, and Yield of Modern Peach Cultivars in the Intermountain Western United States." HortTechnology 19, no. 4 (January 2009): 823–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.19.4.823.

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Production of peaches (Prunus persica) in southwestern Idaho and other states in the intermountain western United States has increased during recent years, requiring information on the performance of modern cultivars in the region. Thus, a long-term project was conducted to investigate bloom date, harvest date, cumulative growing degree-days, fruit quality, and yield of various yellow- and white-fleshed peaches under conditions of southwestern Idaho during 2003 to 2007. The analysis of average response over these years indicated that ‘Snow Giant’, ‘Jupiter’, ‘Yuko King’, ‘Burpeach Six’, ‘Fairtime’, ‘Coral Star’, ‘July Sun’, and ‘Zee Lady’ bloomed earlier (5–7 Apr.), while ‘Sierra Gem’, ‘Fancy Lady’, and ‘Red Star’ bloomed later (11–12 Apr.) than other cultivars. ‘Crimson Lady’, ‘May Sun’, and ‘Sierra Gem’ were the earliest cultivars, had smaller fruit, and on average were harvested on 11, 13, and 24 July and needed 94, 96, and 103 days from full bloom to harvest, respectively. ‘Opal Moncav’, ‘August Flame’, ‘August Lady’, ‘Ryan Sun’, ‘September Snow’, ‘Yukon King’, and ‘Fairtime’ were harvested during the second half of September. The periods between bloom and harvest for these cultivars on average were 160, 163, 163, 168, 171, 173, and 177 days, respectively, and these cultivars often had greater soluble solids concentrations than other cultivars. ‘PF12B’ and ‘PF15A’ were “mid-season,” but ‘PF 20–007’ and ‘PF 24–007’ were “late-season” cultivars. ‘PF12B’, ‘PF15A’, ‘PF 20–007’, ‘Star Fire’, ‘Burapeach Six’, ‘Coral Star’, ‘All Star’, and ‘Zee Lady’ had higher yield than many of the other cultivars. While the “early-season” cultivars can be planted for regional and local market, the “mid-season” and “late-season” peaches are excellent choices for marketing during September and early October when production of the similar cultivars are already completed in warmer regions. Overall, ‘Sweet Dream’, ‘August Lady’, ‘Zee Lady’, ‘August Flame’, ‘Snow Giant’, ‘Saturn’, ‘Jupiter’, and ‘PF24–007’ showed satisfactory to great performance in this long-term evaluation.

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Dick, Angela Ngozi. "The Househelp in African Literature and Its Implication for Identity Representations: Evidence from Adichie’s Select Prose Fictions." English Linguistics Research 8, no. 3 (September 12, 2019): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v8n3p35.

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Househelps are usually boys and girls who go to live with other families to serve as domestic workers. They are usually not paid but their services are converted training them in school or in entrepreneurial empowerment. Their place in African Literature has been explored in Oyono’s Houseboy to portray colonialist policy of assimilation. In Ekwensi’s Jagua Nana’s Daughter, the househelp takes over the home as the protagonist combines the search for her mother and her carrier as a lawyer. Adichie’s prose fictions are inundated with househelps. This article probes the roles of househelps in the development of the plot and finds out that they are portrayed as human beings with rights and privileges. Such portrayal is determined by the attitude of their Masters or Madams. In Purple Hibiscus, the househelp shares in the subjugation of the family because of the harsh treatment of their father. In Half of a Yellow Sun and “Imitation”, the househelps participate in the decision making around food and emotional problems of their Masters and Madams. The author’s portrayal of the househelps brings into focus the need to accept this category of people as human beings to be valued. The literary theory that will inform the analysis of the texts is New Historicism propounded by Stephen Jay Greenbalt.

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Okpala, Ebele Peace. "TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF THE IMAGE OF AFRICAN FEMALES THROUGH THE AGES: AN OVERVIEW OF SELECTED LITERARY WORKS." Volume-3: Issue- 1 (January) 3, no. 1 (January 28, 2020): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.36099/ajahss.3.1.4.

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The image of African women has evolved over the years. The study traced and critically analyzed how African female persona and experience have been depicted starting from pre-colonial, colonial to postcolonial eras using selected literary texts. It highlighted the impacts made by feminist writers towards a re-definition of the African woman. The theoretical framework was hinged on Feminist theory. Feminism, feminist ideologies and their proponents were also highlighted. The research revealed that the image of pre-colonial and colonial African women as portrayed in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine, Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel, Flora Nwapa’s Efuru, El Saadawi’s The Woman at Point Zero, Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter among others was ascribed a second class status. The Postcolonial African women have come to the awareness of their rights and roles through the numerous intellectual and political campaigns of African feminist writers. Their image has changed from being in the kitchen, bearing and rearing children to also shouldering responsibilities as most powerful men in the community as depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of the Yellow Sun among others. The study recommended the acquisition of good education and self-development as the major strategies to confront the impediments orchestrated by patriarchy.

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