Cultural clash: an analysis of the short story The Matchmakers, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2018v22.e32165

Keywords:

Literary Theory, Contemporary African Literature, Post-Colonialism, Cultural Criticism.

Abstract

In the book of short stories In Her Neck (2017), the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, presents narratives with varied and very current themes. In this sense, the short stories present in this work become excellent corpus for an analysis from postcolonial theories, as well as focused on the studies of culture in its difference and diversity. With that in mind, this paper analyzes the short story Os casemontiros (The Matchmakers), present in the aforementioned work, emphasizing the cultural shock experienced by the protagonist. We highlight through this marriage the attempt of domination of a culture considered as white and therefore superior, in relation to another, black and considered inferior

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Author Biographies

Leandro Lopes Soares, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte - UERN.

Master's student in Languages at the Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte - UERN.

Sebastião Marques Cardoso, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte - UERN

PhD in Literary Theory and History from UNICAMP.

Maria Edileuza da Costa, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte - UERN.

PhD in Literature from the Universidade Federal da Paraíba -UFPB.

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Published

2018-12-28

How to Cite

Soares, L. L., Cardoso, S. M., & Costa, M. E. da. (2018). Cultural clash: an analysis of the short story The Matchmakers, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Estação Literária, 22, 82–92. https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2018v22.e32165