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Adichie: “Tomorrow Is Too Far”
3.1 "False Consciousness: Authoring Good & Evil"
“Tomorrow is Too Far” (supplement)
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Adichie - “Tomorrow is Too Far” (Waywords)
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Adichie - “Tomorrow is Too Far” (members)
“You say nothing; you are thinking that Grandmama stayed alive too long.”
Chapters
- Intro
- Adichie & Difference
- No Clean Lines; Filling the Gaps
- Snakes & Epistemic Shifts
- **Linguistics: Compounding & Kennings
- Deconstructing “You”
- Bigger Than the Story
- Feminism’s Epistemologies
- Bakhtin: Intersections and Bad Binaries
- A Closer Reading: Layers in the Details
- Sociological Theory: Ill-Fitting Frames
- Reflection: Juxtaposing Authors
- Closing: One More Moment
- Outro
**Available to our members on Episode 3+ (the full bonus episode)
Bibliography for Main Episode
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Allardice, Lisa. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This Could Be the Beginning of a Revolution.’” The Guardian, 28 Apr. 2018. The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo.
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Ryan, Connor. “Defining Diaspora in the Words of Women Writers: A Feminist Reading of Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ and Dionne Brand’s ‘At the Full and Change of the Moon.’” Callaloo, vol. 37, no. 5, 2014, pp. 1230–44.
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Bibliography for False Consciousness Supplement
Credits
Original music for The Waywords Podcast is by Randon Myles
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
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Chisnell, Steve. “Adichie: ‘Tomorrow Is Too Far.’” Waywords Studio, 12 Nov. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/adichie-tomorrow-is-too-far/.
