Opacidade e transparência no comportamento das personagens femininas na obra de Chimamanda Adichie

Female characters stand out in the work of Chimamanda Adichie, whose narrative fabric is engendered around the feminine condition propitiated by the society in which they are inserted. Their lives are guided either by tradition or by modernity. However, they always have as their “backdrop” the intertwining between these two assumptions. Opposing this aspect, there is also the question of alterity, widely discussed, because the "I" who wants to be the "other", but does not renounce itself, generating the identity conflict in these characters, whose behavior oscillates between opacity and transparency. Supporting this dilemma is the process of colonization, largely responsible for the decimation of culture. The visibility of women in these societies is the result of a silent and constant struggle. Considering that, besides bearing the yoke of colonization, they also have to cope with the question of patriarchalism, that is, the hegemony of the male gender, which reveals itself from the beginning, because it underlies tradition and establishes itself in modernity. Thus, the female characters in Adichie’s work relate to this universe in which the feminine reveals itself in a silent way, through strategies that apparently are not aggressive, but determine and transform the future of the new generations. Analyzing the behavior of these characters is the purpose of this work. For theoretical foundation, we will use the studies of Said (1995), Bhabha (1998), Hall (2006), Spivak (2010), Bamisile (2007), Obiechina (1975), Bordieu (1999), among others.