This concludes the "love and blah blah blah" series. If you've missed the initial two installments, check CLICK ME! for series one and CLICK ME! CLICK ME! for series two. That should take care of everyone, us "Kardashian-speakers" included.
8. I LOVE IRONY
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| Oh yes, it really does. |
I love
picking out irony. I had great joy figuring out that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
was being ironical (unknowingly of course) when she gave that Single Story talk
on TED. She believes the West have a certain tailor-made keyhole into which
they fit the African key. There cannot be any other door; no other key. And
thanks to this model, Chimamanda fulfils the role of the perpetually overly
emotive female African writer, whose pitiful characters the white man and woman
will readily relate to, because after all, isn't this the single story of female (especially) African writers?
The reader was not required […] to
admit that a book by a Negro author might challenge not just the conscience but
the intellect.
- Stephen L. Carter (Palace Council)