RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2312-92202312-9247Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)4669«Purple Hibiscus» by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieIlinaN YDepartament of English Moscow State Academy of Law-Departament of English Moscow State Academy of Law150420094545907092016Copyright © 2009,2009The article analyses problems, touched upon in the novel «Purple Hibiscus» of a Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007.chroniclesAfrican literaturemodernismmythsliterary traditionsбытописаниеафриканская литературамодернизммифылитературные традиции