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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)
3+ Bonus Episode
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
“A Conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” Image Journal, https://imagejournal.org/article/conversation-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/. Accessed 10 Nov. 2021.
Abiona, Omolara. “Of Maps, Margins and Storylines: Sociologically Imagining Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Zi Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck” and ‘Americanah.’” Trinity College Digital Repository, no. Spring 2016, https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/581 .
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. The Danger of a Single Story. 1254877200. www.ted.com, https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.
—. The Thing Around Your Neck. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2009.
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.
Aziza, Rose, and Utulu Don C. “Compounding in Ewulu and Urhobo.” International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2108, pp. 24–30.
Benczes, Reka. “Metaphor- and Metonymy-Based Compounds in English: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach.” Acta Linguistica Hungarica, vol. 52, no. 2–3, 2005, pp. 173–98.
Berlin, James. “Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class.” College English, vol. 50, no. 5, Sept. 1988, p. 477. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.2307/377477.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature. New Directions, 2013.
Brown, Hugh R. “Igbo Words for the Non-Igbo: Achebe’s Artistry in ‘Arrow of God.’” Research in African Literatures, vol. 12, no. 1, 1981, pp. 69–85.
Chiaet, Julianne. “Novel Finding: Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy.” Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/. Accessed 10 Nov. 2021.
“Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read.” Literary Hub, 15 Sept. 2017, https://lithub.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-how-to-write-and-how-to-read/.
Eze, Chielozona. Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016.
“Feminism as Fairness.” Ebrary, https://ebrary.net/63163/sociology/feminism_fairness. Accessed 10 Nov. 2021.
Hewett, Heather. “Coming of Age: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Voice of the Third Generation.” English in Africa, vol. 32, no. 1, 2005, pp. 73–97.
Kestler, Allison. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Has Won 2018 PEN Pinter Prize — and Rightfully So.” Study Breaks, 25 June 2018, https://studybreaks.com/culture/reads/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/.
MacFarquhar, Larissa. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Comes to Terms with Global Fame.” The New Yorker, May 2018. www.newyorker.com, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-comes-to-terms-with-global-fame.
Mustich, James. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Conversation with James Mustich.” Barnes & Noble, 29 June 2009, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/review/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.
Nnaemeka, Obioma. “Feminism, Rebellious Women, and Cultural Boundaries: Rereading Flora Nwapa and Her Compatriots.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, 1995, pp. 80–113.
Ross, Michael L. “Ownership of Language: Diglossia in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 50, no. 1, 2019, pp. 111–26. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.50.1.07.
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.
Silva, Meyre Ivone da. “African Feminists towards the Politics of Empowerment.” Revista de Letras, vol. 44, no. 2, 2004, pp. 129–38.
The Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Website. http://www.cerep.ulg.ac.be/adichie/cnaintro.html. Accessed 10 Nov. 2021.
Tunca, Daria. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as Chinua Achebe’s (Unruly) Literary Daughter: The Past, Present, and Future of ‘Adichebean’ Criticism.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 49, no. 4, 2018, pp. 107–26. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.49.4.08.
Udoye, Ifeoma Emmanuela. “Phonology of Igbo Compound Place Names.” KIU Journal of Humanities, vol. 4, no. 1, May 2019, pp. 25–28.
Bibliography for False Consciousness Supplement
Credits
Original music for The Waywords Podcast is by Randon Myles
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski

Cite this podcast with MLA format:
Chisnell, Steve. “Adichie: ‘Tomorrow Is Too Far.’” Waywords Studio, 12 Nov. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/adichie-tomorrow-is-too-far/.