adichie shares that belief with eudora. she did believe that a writer must have a point of view, a position and perspective about the world. like eudora, ms. adichie also has a distinctive outlook that guides her fiction n. her work as a novelist and public intellectual, she has sought to make us think differently about africa. she has also compelled us to think about how we all and should be feminists. in her fiction she writes outside of herself and creates real psychological acuity to the interior and exterior lives of her characters. when you enter the world of ms. adichie's fiction, she provides the reader with a glass-like clarity of where you are. on the surface, the setting may seem unfamiliar, but she quickly places you in the world she has created. she also knows when to make her reader comfortable as well as when to challenge them and push toward thought-provoking discomfort. ms. adichie has warned americans of the danger of a single story, the idea that people living in the surgeon area of -- the certain area of

it was a familiar conflict for eudora.one that is represented in her story, where his the voice coming from? written on the night of the murder of a activist. she said she wrote it in anger. when she heard the news it occurred to her that she knew what was going on in the mind of the man who pulled the trigger. she knew because she lived all her life where it had happened. now, neither south nor africa's self referential perspective, competing narratives both inside and outside the regions are helpful in defining what either place is or what it means to be from that part of the world. both places are filled with continuity and their sense of place. as well as discontinuity and the ways that their sense of place is being transformed. interestingly enough, in reading her novel, americana, am reminded of another link between her work kand the american south. the character chimamanda she had -- when feminist struggles with what it means to be black in the united states, she is also struggling with an identity that has haits ro

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