So I was an early reader, and what I read were British and American children's books.
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What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children.
Her vulnerability towards the only books she could see is what resulted in her at first writing about what she read and believing it was the only thing she could write.
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All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out.
Based off her telling of reading primarily British and American books, her characters were inspired by the characters in those books.
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waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner
Her particular noting of this was, and still is, what some people in the U.S may see themselves as when helping another country.
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Now, I was quite willing to contend that there were a number of things wrong with the novel, that it had failed in a number of places, but I had not quite imagined that it had failed at achieving something called African authenticity.
She's fine to accept proper criticism of her work. Being judged for something without a clear understanding, however, is not criticism.
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"nkali." It's a noun that loosely translates to "to be greater than another."
A powerful word that can be used to describe others either selfishly or heroically, depending on the story you might view.
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I had bought into the single story of Mexicans and I could not have been more ashamed of myself.
She was willing to share and accept her own single story, and thusly correct her false outlook on how the Mexicans were portrayed in the U.S.
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I had just read a novel called "American Psycho" -- -- and that it was such a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.
A hilarious comeback and good counter to taking stories at a face value, that it would apply to all of that one culture or race.
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The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
A really good explanation of stereotypes and their potential issues, and the resulting issues of only having one story.
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He felt that people who could read, would read, if you made literature affordable and available to them.
This is true, since without an opportunity their isn't a possibility in the first place.
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What if my roommate
She begins to consistently use her roommate as the basis for who would be learning these things from her and her country.
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I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria.
Adichie had grown up in a educational environment.
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we have big dreams of building libraries and refurbishing libraries that already exist and providing books for state schools that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of organizing lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories.
She wants to help spread more stories to help prevent single stories, to help showcase a broader eye of particular cultures or literature.
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