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A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie By Emenyonu Ernest N., ed. James Currey, Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2017, 300 pp.
A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu, is a welcome contribution to the study of today’s most globally recognized African author. Although a great deal has been written about Adichie, this is the first book of essays dedicated exclusively to her work. The volume’s seventeen chapters take a number of different critical approaches to her fiction, including sociological, psychoanalytic, and formal. Importantly, the book boasts a diverse set of contributors from across the globe, a third of whom are based at institutions in Africa. In terms of its structure, the Companion proceeds more or less chronologically through Adichie’s oeuvre, from Purple Hibiscus to Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing around Your Neck, and Americanah. Having said that, the...