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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 88–106PDF of Representation, Gender and The Politics of Marginalisation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count

   Representation, Gender and The Politics of Marginalisation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count

   Okoro, Harmony Ezinne and Omoregie, Blessing Onaiwu Eyonju

   victims subjects of media and societal scrutiny, mockery and objects of caricature. Reading Chimamanda Adichie’s Dream Count, this study applies the implicit bias theory as the primary framework … rape law in sexual violence involving migrant African women and men-in-power using Adichie’s Dream Count

2. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 211–233PDF of Identity Construction in Literary Discourse: A Critical Discourse Study of Female Characters in Adichie’s Dream Count

   Identity Construction in Literary Discourse: A Critical Discourse Study of Female Characters in Adichie’s Dream Count

   Chiagozie Eburuaja

   This study examines the discursive construction of female identity in Adichie’s Dream Count. Existing studies have examined identity construction in social media, naming practices, promotional discourse, and selected literary … works, including Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus, but limited attention has been given to Dream Count. To address this gap, the study analyses purposively selected

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 2 (September 2023)pp. 94–116PDF of The Unspoken Ideology: A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Silent Ideologies in Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

   The Unspoken Ideology: A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Silent Ideologies in Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

   Christian Onah and Emmanuel Jibb Adams

   This study applies Critical Stylistics to Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus to examine how the linguistic choices of both authors construct and communicate ideologies … applying this Critical Stylistics model to Iyayi’s Heroes and The Contract, and to Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, is recommended to test whether these ideological

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 234–247PDF of Microaggressions and the Negotiation of Black Identity in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah

   Microaggressions and the Negotiation of Black Identity in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah

   Eze Nnaemeka Richard and Obasi Ngozika Linda

   Existing scholarship on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah has examined racism, racial identity, diaspora, gender, hair, language, and immigrant experiences. However, the specific ways racial microaggressions shape the negotiation

5. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 269–289PDF of Decolonial Ecology, Linguistic Hegemony and Indigenous Environmental Epistemologies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

   Decolonial Ecology, Linguistic Hegemony and Indigenous Environmental Epistemologies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi and Henrietta Okafor

   relationship between linguistic hegemony and environmental consciousness in postcolonial Africa through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness. Drawing from Anibal Quijano

6. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 22, Issue 1 (September 2022)pp. 1–15PDF of Ambiguity and the Modernist Question: Characterising Estrangement in Selected African Novels

   Ambiguity and the Modernist Question: Characterising Estrangement in Selected African Novels

   Chinasa Abonyi

   this essay examines the uncanny, which comes with the detachment of characters in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Tanre Ojaide’s The Activist, and Nawal El’ Saadawi’s Woman

7. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 85–101PDF of Titles as Conceptual Metaphors of Coloniality in Selected African Novels

   Titles as Conceptual Metaphors of Coloniality in Selected African Novels

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze and Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie

   titles of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and Alaa Al Aswany