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1. 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

   explores several modernist tensions such as ambiguity, alienation, solitude, and estrangement, these foreground the uncanny and the defamiliarization experienced by Africans as a result of colonial conquest and political disillusionment … environment defamiliarized in postcolonial regions. From Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective, this essay examines the uncanny, which comes with the detachment of characters in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Tanre Ojaide