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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.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism

• Pełny tytuł: Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel
• Podtytuł: Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism
• Autor: Robert Spencer
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 276
• EAN: 9783030665586
• ID: 38688601
• Wydawca: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Waga: 381 g
• Wymiary: 210 × 148 × 16 mm
• Data wydania: 03. March 2022

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