EXPLORING SOCIETAL REFLECTIONS IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S THE THINGS AROUND YOUR NECK
Authors: Ifeoma Chukwujekwu Eze
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17434716
Published: April 2025
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<p><em>This paper critically examines the thematic preoccupations in Chimamanda Adichie’s short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck, highlighting the societal focus of literature as a mirror of human experience. Literary works emerge from human interactions with their immediate environment, and through meticulous character sketches, Adichie creates prototypes of real human beings, enabling readers to observe both the virtues and flaws of individuals in society. Stories such as Cell One, Imitation, A Private Experience, Ghost, On Monday of Last Week, Jumping Monkey Hill, The Thing Around Your Neck, The American Embassy, The Arrangers of Marriage, and Tomorrow is Too Far subtly yet explicitly explore issues affecting human existence, with particular attention to Africans (Nigerians) living both within the continent and in the diaspora</em></p>
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