Representation And Resistance In Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price (1976) And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003) A Comparative Study.

Résumé: This present dissertation is a comparative study of two literary works: Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price (1976) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003). This study aims to show how the two authors liberate their female protagonists. To achieve our goal, we have relied on Alice Walker’s Womanism, developed in her collection of essays In Search of Our Mothers Garden: Womanist Prose (1983). Our dissertation first focus on how the black women are subjugated to many injustices in the Nigerian communities. The discussion section, initiates with an analysis of how the power of traditions has a great impact on the black women’s lives and it examines women’s solidarity in both works. Then, it studies the relevant factors of how women resist the customs, norms and gender discrimination in order to impose their presence in the society. Through the analysis of Buchi Emecheta’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s works, our work concludes with the similarities and differences between The Bride Price and Purple Hibiscus.

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