Chimanda Ngozi.- Sunday reading

This Blog is a part of Sunday Reading activity task; it's given by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir,  to know about the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and we have to discuss three videos given below.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Born on 15 September 1977,she is a Nizerian Novelist, writer of short stories.

She has written the below novels:-

'Purple Hibiscus',
'Half of a Yellow Sun',
'Americanah'


Short Stories:-

'The thing Around your Neck',
'We should all be Feminist'


Here, is Chimamanda’s speech topic :

- “We should all be Feminist”

‘The higher you go, the fewer women there are.’

The definition of Feminist is advocating social, political, legal, andeconomic rights for women equal to those of men.
In her speech she shares her Experience with Waiter in Hotel. Waiter greet only Man with her and ignore her every time. Waiter is product of society, who taught them that male are more important than female.  She add that Gender matters everywhere in the world. On gender she further says that Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.


How parenting  differentiate  gender: We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him.
Idea And Language of marriage is also discussed by her that,  language of marriage is language of ownership rather than language of partnership. We used the world respect something which women should show to Men but, not Men shows to Women.Compromise in relationship, we grows the girl with competence of rather girl’s intention is for the attention of Men. We praised girl for virginity not boy!  We teach girl shame, no desire, silence themselves. Apart from all we should focus on ability rather than gender. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations After all, Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.


-Talk on Importance of story in literature.


In this TED talk Chimamanda tells the story of she found her authentic cultural voice… and turns on Danger of having a single story. If we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
In the beginning, She talk about her mental shift on literature. How her early writings character with Fair skin and blue eyes, eat apple and drink ginger bear, when in reality having a chocolate color skin, kinky hair and normally eat mangoes and never taste ginger bear! Writers like Chinua Achebe and other African writer opens new door of her imagination. She says that What’s the discovery African writers did for her is…It save from having a single story.



-Talk on importance of Truth in Post - Truth Era


           In the third video about truth in post-truth era, she beautifully said about the courage of speaking truth. He thought is to be loyal with ourselves to tell the truth. Post truth is very dangerous weapon in this 21st century, especially political parties make use of this kind of weapon to provocate riots and also media used for profit and to raise their TRP. So, she tries to say that do not driven as sheeple with the political language, try to understand the truth with authentication and always doubt in such a things.