The research aids a better understanding, interpretation and analysis of Adichie's novels. The research proves that creative novelists do not distort history, rather, they re-invent and reconstruct the history of their societies, organizing them according to existing literary trends. The paper adopts Marxism as interpretative theory to evaluate the novels. Using Content analysis, the paper examine the two novels as primary sources of data and other critical materials about the author. This paper focuses on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's use of history in Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun to construct and arouse national consciousness by re-creating the history of the Nigerian Civil war through literature. The artist could start from a dissatisfied present, peeps into the past to see what it was like and make a selection from both to forecast a future, shaping its birth according to existing literary trends.
To this end, literature relates to history. Literature is not necessarily history but it has the ability to pre-empt an unacceptable future as it provides a model in fiction to construct that future. In sum up, the novel is located with the issues of marginality, history and conflict, which interrogates through post-colonial theoretical formations and the six-phase structure of war novels.
The post-colonial approach becomes one of the ways of engaging the theoretical understanding of the novel Half of a Yellow Sun. The study attempts to address the following four questions: first, what are the causes-effects of Biafran/Civil war? Second, why Nigerians have been suffering during the wartime? Third, how does the representation of Nigerian history enable understanding of the post-colonial issues? And final, what is the role of conflict in Nigerian history? In order to understand this conflict, the study addresses the detailed analysis of war conflict, ethnic conflict, class conflict, military conflict and eco-political conflict. This study deals with the conflict of Nigerian Biafran War 6 July, 1960-15 January, 1967 as represented in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006).
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