![]() ![]() In this context, Adichie offers a new historicist perspective to the novel. Adichie depicts different views about postcolonial Nigeria with three narrators. In Half a Yellow Sun, Adichie tries to explore the colonizer / colonized paradigm with the retelling of Nigeria’s history after its freedom from Britain’s rule and the subsequent Biafran War. New historicism reinterprets the concepts of history and culture and interprets historical events in the context of power relations. ![]() New Historicism refuses the idea of history as a clearly available, unitary and linear past. According to this new understanding, history is not objective as it is reshaped according to the point of view of the person who wrote it. In literary criticism the new historicist theory represents “a return to history.” But this turn of history offers an alternative understanding of history. ![]()
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