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DOI:10.7832/46-2-311 - Corpus ID: 151179854
@article{Dube2019PurpleHA, title={Purple Hibiscus: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading}, author={Musa W. Dube}, journal={Missionalia}, year={2019}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:151179854}}- M. Dube
- Published in Missionalia 1 February 2019
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The article investigates how Purple Hibiscus utilizes intertextuality and explores the intersection of class, gender, race, postcoloniality and violence in a context of theological imagination represented by two siblings, who express their Roman Catholic faith differently. The character of Papa Eugene, whose extreme religiosity and violence pervades the book, is depicted as a colonized subject, who embodies epistemic violence of a colonial past. The decolonizing postcolonial feminist…
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