POLITICAL MOTHERHOOD IN PURPLE HIBISCUS, BY CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE/ A MATERNIDADE POLITICA EM HIBISCO ROXO, DE CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE

This article focuses on the study of gender and motherhood as political categories before the female subject belonging to Nigeria, transposed in the novel Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The corpus of this research presents narratives which inscribe the feminine as subjects touched by the patriarchal culture and that subvert the imposed places of silencing. Theorists such as Amadiume (2015), Bibi Bakare-Yusuf (2003) and Amina Mama (2013) were brought to the study, highlighting the need to understand gender as a category that permeates colonial and post-colonial experiences in Africa. Thus, we observe motherhood through the political bias of analysis, as debated by Mary O'Brien (2007), and Andrea O'Reilly (2007) in feminist studies, acting as a place of strength and resistance among women, capable of generating changes in the generations that follow, questioning the historical narratives, and their places of protagonism and power.