The specifics of the religious context in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel “Purple Hibiscus”

This article focuses on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel “Purple Hibiscus”. The aim of addressing this material is to determine the role of the religious component in the text and to identify its contextual interrelation with the themes and issues of the work. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the novel under consideration is analyzed for the first time from the perspective of the specific artistic representation of the situation of cultural interaction in postcolonial Nigeria through the prism of the religious context prevailing in the work. As a result, the significance of the theme of religion, which Ch. N. Adichie addresses in the framework of creating a hybrid multicultural text, is substantiated, where the religious context emphasized by the author contributes to the revelation of the historical and cultural level of the work and has a direct impact on the depiction of the peculiarities of the characters’ self-identification.