Sacred Things, Sacred Bodies: The Ethics of Materiality and Female Spirituality in <em>Purple Hibiscus</em>

Thing theorist Bill Brown writes that “the thing names less an object than a particular subject-object relation.” This article examines the subject-object relation between African things and African bodies in Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus. While the ma...

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Main Author: McQuarrie, Kylie
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2015
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4409
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5408&amp;context=etd