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Unmasking the African Dictator : Essays on Postcolonial African Literature /
In Africa, the development of "dictatorship fiction" as a vehicle for depicting the authoritarian state arose more slowly than in other parts of the world. The dictator novel emerged earlier in Latin America, as the region's anticolonial disengagement preceded that of Africa. Thus, th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nuruddin Farah's variations on the theme of an African dictatorship / Gichingiri Ndigirigi
- Colonialism, the modern African dictator and the postcolonial state / Nada Halloway
- The unfaithful chronicler: on writing about the dictator in Henri Lopes's Le pleurer-rire (The laughing cry) / Magali Armillas-Tiseyra
- Toxic fathers: Henri Lopes's The laughing cry as emblematic African dictator novel / Gitahi Gititi
- The last king of Africa: the representation of Idi Amin in Ugandan dictatorship novels / Oliver Lovesey
- Jacob's ladder and Anthills of the Savannah: narrativizing the internal-external dynamic of African political power / Joseph McLaren
- The dictator and his objects: the status of the fetish in the African dictator novel / Magali Armillas-Tiseyra
- Fimbo ya Nyayo: when the Kenyan dictator called the tunes! / Maina Mutonya
- Diagnosing the dictator's body politic in Wizard of the Crow / Robert L. Colson
- Performing resistance in Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow / Gichingiri Ndigirigi
- Fraternal oppression and the "aesthetics of vulgarity" in Alain Mabanckou's Broken glass / Awa Sarr
- "A nation of one's own": fictional indictment of cannibalistic African states / Nganga Muchiri.