The Short Story Review, Birdsong by Chimamanda Ngozi.
Nigerian emigrants to the United States Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Born in the town of Enugu, she grew up in the university town of Nsukka in southeastern Nigeria, where the University of Nigeria is situated. While she was growing up, her father was a professor of statistics at the university, and her mother as the university registrar.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, (born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria), Nigerian author whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s. Britannica Quiz.. (2014), an essay adapted from a speech she gave at a TEDx talk in 2012.
The New Yorker published a short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called “BirdSong”. The story centers on the so hypocritical fixation with morality and the habitual disdain for others. The young woman who spends her nights wondering from church to church in search of a husband.
Through a detailed discussion of Birdsong, a selection of War Poetry and reference to Journey’s End, explore this portrayal. The people of 21st century Britain are very much aware that World War One was a bloodbath in which the lives of an entire generation of young men were wasted.
Book Summary. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come. Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present.
In depth analysis of all the sections of Birdsong. Students have space to add their own notes.