MAPPING THE METANARRATION OF INFORMAL VIOLENT DISCOURSE IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE'S PURPLE HIBISCUS

Abstract

The epistemology in interpreting the text world is the self-reflexive action of the socio-critics Tfor the intellectual appraisal of active social functionalism. They interrogate thephilosophical perspectivism of the social phenomena in the text, which includes dissent,conflict and struggle. It is a social conflict that is fought between discursive falsism andsociocultural flexibility. The text is the exaggerated reality of an extreme belief system, in the postcolonialimprisonment of Papa (Eugene) in his positionality of the new culture and ideology. Thepaper interrogates the metacommunication in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, where theprotagonist represents in the context of anthropological metaphor that is the alpha male, who exertsphysical, mental and lexical abuse on the other participants. Being the centre and others; margin,he assumes the semiotic position of socio-lexical disequilibrium and intellectual arrogance, in thephenomenal discourse that enveloped the storyline. Narrative semiotics is a method for analysingtexts within the frame of the metacommunicative domain to reconstruct the narrative structure andthe meaning-bearing deep structure of texts. It is the potency for the extrapolation of meaningand/or deduction in the narrative analysis. The superlative phenomenon of the use of lexical oddityand the social misdemeanour of the protagonist in the text awaken the instinct of the others for selfdefenceto the extreme measure, and also to the truth of being free. These are the stimulants forviolent reactions and the response is enormous.