Dislodging Patriarchal Hierarchy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus .

Abstract

Patriarchy has been a recurring motif in African, black diaspora, and
postcolonial literature. It has always been taken as a central point in most
discourses of Nigerian feminist fiction. This paper examines how Adichie
upends the patriarchal hierarchy in Purple Hibiscus (2003) through M. M.
argues that Adichie dislodges patriarchy through profanation and Menippean
Satire, as narrative features of the carnivalesque, in the family and religious
spheres from the Igbo cultural perspective in the novel. The paper concludes
that her adoption of the carnivalesque framework challenges the oppression
and exclusion of the Igbo
acknowledges gender roles and positions in the culture.