The Intellectuals and the Indigenous in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun

This essay synthesizes Gramsci's notion of intellectuals and Fanon's concept of postcolonial intellectuals and studies Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun in light of that. It is argued that due to the hybridity which is an inevitable characteristic of western educated postcolonial intellectuals and their membership in postcolonial bourgeois class, the intellectual characters of this novel cannot fit in and integrate into their postcolonial indigenous society and thus their contribution to the rise of postcolonial nation remains at the level of detached abstraction, theory and talk. This makes them live in a state of ambivalence which makes them neither traditional intellectuals nor organic ones. Based on what is argued we can say that the only organic intellectual in the novel is Ugwu who rises from and writes for the indigenous society and its realities.

کلیدواژه ها:

Organic Intellectual ، Traditional intellectual ، Indigenous ، Hybridity ، Postcolonial ، Nation