Bridging the Gulf: Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
摘要
Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun can well be described as a fictional trench both for articulating the trauma of Biafran experience and negotiating postwar reconciliation in Nigerian socio-political space. While the novel attempts to reconstruct love and coherence from the heap of historical disorder by offering a seemingly unbiased diagnosis of the events of the war, it however makes the urgency for dialogue and reconciliation its symbolic gesture. This chapter investigates how Adichie literary intervention in the perennial search for acceptable togetherness in postwar Nigeria, offers a new perspective that challenges the perpetuation of the ethics of national disintegration. Her artistic projections suggest that postwar dialogue is a necessary step towards engendering viable togetherness in Nigeria.