Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel
Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains...
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This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the 'neoliberal' period after the 1970s as an effective 'recolonization' of Africa by Western states and international financial institutions. Dictatorship is theorised as a form of concentrated economic and political power that facilitates Africa's continued dependency in the context of world capitalism. The deepest aspiration of anti-colonial revolution remains the democratization of these authoritarian states inherited from the colonial period. This book discusses four novels by Ng g wa Thiong'o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in order to reveal how their themes and forms dramatize this unfinished struggle between dictatorship and radical democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel “
Chapter 1: Introduction: The unfinished project of decolonisation.- Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and the 'recolonization' of Africa.- Chapter 3: Performance and power I: Ng g wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow.- Chapter 4: Performance and power II: Ahmadou Kourouma's Waiting for the Wild.- Chapter 5: Allegories of dictatorship in Nigerian fiction: Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The counter-counter revolution.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature (2011) and the co-author of For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics, with David Alderson (2017), and co-author of Postcolonial Locations: New Directions in Postcolonial Studies, with Anastasia Valassopoulos (2020). Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Spencer
- 2021, 1st ed. 2021, IX, 276 Seiten, Masse: 14,8 x 21 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3030665550
- ISBN-13: 9783030665555
Sprache:
Englisch
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