• Mrs. Sridevi
• L.MAGGILAVANYA

Literature is the expression of the life of an individual and the society. Chinua Achebe has said of her as the writer who came “almost fully made”; a huge praise coming from one whom many consider the father of Modern African literature. Adichie’s ‘womanism’ as in my earlier critical essay entitled “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. In the novel Purple Hibiscus there is an evident that Father Amadi changed Igbo people to Christianly. . Even though, Nigeria has gained its independence from the British, the influence of the coloniser is still seen in political, economic and socio-cultural mechanism in country. The effect of this form of cultural imperialism is that the middle class and elite who were mainly beneficiaries of western education such as Eugene see the coloniser and is language at culture as superior to the indigenous Igbo culture.

THE INTERTEXTUAL IMAGINATION IN CHIMMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS.

"THE INTERTEXTUAL IMAGINATION IN CHIMMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.594-596, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06125.pdf

"THE INTERTEXTUAL IMAGINATION IN CHIMMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp594-596, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06125.pdf