Common Reading Experience
Students, faculty, and staff will read We Should All Be Feminists written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie before arriving on campus. During Welcome Week, students are invited to a Siena Community members house with their Orientation Team/FYE class for a Dinner and Book Discussion.
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Each academic year, Siena Heights University chooses an academic theme to serve as the focus of each year. The academic theme selected for this year is on Common Good. As incoming first year students, transition to college can be a significant change.
Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences, Adichie asks readers to "dream about a plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves." and her deep understanding of the often-masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now - and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists. |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
About the Author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author of four novels, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. She has received various accolades for her novels including Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, and The Thing Around Your Neck, was listed on the New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of novels
For more information about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, please visit http://chimamanda.com/.
Author of four novels, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. She has received various accolades for her novels including Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, and The Thing Around Your Neck, was listed on the New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of novels
For more information about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, please visit http://chimamanda.com/.