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After reading Chimamanda Adichie's "The Headstrong Historian," respond to each of the following prompts. For each prompt, defend a thesis and make an analytical argument based on previous course materials. Do not use any materials outside of this course. The purpose is to exercise your analytical skills, not to develop some new knowledge or perspective.

The response must be typed and double-spaced.

Refrain from evaluation (thumbs up, thumbs down), reader response (fright, joy, anger, epiphany), and plot summary. Demonstrate how or why a text makes meaning (analysis) rather than arguing what a text means (interpretation).

Do not simply repeat class discussion. Do not do research. I need to see you think!

Explain the mythic elements in Chimamanda Adichie's "The Headstrong Historian." Use evidence from the text and concepts from class. Produce 1-2 paragraphs.
In one paragraph, explain how and why this story is a short story in the American form. Elaborate two separate criteria and use textual evidence.
In one full paragraph, explain how and why this story resists, deviates from, or undermines Western Modernity.
What is the story showing the reader about the spread of Christianity through Nigeria? Make one full point with textual evidence in one paragraph.

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