ADICHIE’S ‘THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK’: A POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST READING

Abstract

This research paper is focused on Adichie’s The  Thing  Around  Your  Neck,  a  collection of  the stories from Nigeria, as a strong the postcolonial feminist voice. The writer presents the pains and pathos as well as the rebellion of the females in Nigeria and aboard. Western Colonialism has badly exploited the country and the people.The females have been the main victims of Nigeria  at  that  time  and  later  too.  The  patriarchy  in  the  country has  given  much  pain  and suffering to Nigerian Women. They were victimized, dehumanized, and humiliated through different  social  institutions.  They  were  also  exploited  by  their  close  relatives  who  were patriarchal by nature. The writer says that the awareness among the people and especially on the women themselves has made the situation better. The females are able to resist any kind of  inhuman  treatment  and  severe  tortures  given  by  patriarchy  and  colonialism.  As  a qualitative research, the researcher used the text of Adichie as a primary source of data and analyzed with the theoretical tool of feminism and postcolonialism.