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This paper offers an insight into a variety of female characters taken from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut novel, Purple Hibiscus and her short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, focusing on "Imitation", "Jumping Monkey Hill" and "The Arrangers of Marriage". These characters, after being contextualized in a postcolonial environment, are analyzed in terms of gender subjugation, exploring the amount of freedom they enjoy and the opportunities for liberation they can access, finding elements of both submission and resistance in most of them. Also, possible symbols or connections to recent African history are examined, in order to give domestic stories a bigger meaning.Este TFG ofrece un análisis de un grupo de personajes femeninos tomados de la primera novela de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus, así como de su colección de relatos cortos, The Thing Around Your Neck, centrándose en las historias "Imitation", "Jumping Monkey Hill" y "The Arrangers of Marriage". Estos personajes, contextualizados en un entorno postcolonial, son analizados en términos de subyugación, explorando el grado de libertad del que disfrutan y las oportunidades de liberación a las que pueden acceder; encontrando elementos tanto de sumisión como de resistencia en la mayoría de ellos. También, se intentan encontrar posibles metáforas o conexiones con la historia reciente de África, para poner de relevancia el significado simbólico de estas historias domésticas

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