Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvRobert Spencer

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This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. This book discusses four novels by Ngugi 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-03
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt392 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Comparisons in World Literature
Antal sidor276
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030665586

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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).

Chapter 1: Introduction: The unfinished project of decolonisation.- Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and the ‘recolonization’ of Africa.- Chapter 3: Performance and power I: Ngũgĩ 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.

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