Fictions of African dictatorship cultural representations of postcolonial power
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- ISBN: 1787076814
- ISBN: 1787076822
- ISBN: 1787076830
- ISBN: 9781787076815
- ISBN: 9781787076822
- ISBN: 9781787076839
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1 online resource. - Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, 2018.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson -- Portrait of a dictator -- The image of Sékou Touré: art and the making of postcolonial Guinea / Angie Epifano -- From dictatorship to self-constitution: historical fiction and the aesthetics of tyranny in Bensalem Himmich's Le calife de l'épouvante / Khalid Lyamlahy -- "Where is our president?" Bekolo's 'Dictator' / Rita Keresztesi -- Myth-making/unreality/performance -- Creation through inversion: the carnivalesque postcolonial state in the novels of Alain Mabanckou and in Koli Jean Bofane / Eline Kuenen -- From ritual to fiction: The wizard of the crow / Maria Muresan -- Mythical representations of dictatorial power in the novels of Ahmadou Kourouma / Lucien Bindi Ngouté -- Compromised freedoms -- The author and the authoritarian: Gamal al-Ghitani's Al-Zayni Barakat / Alya El Hosseiny -- The one who does His Majesty's bidding: censorship and the banality of power in siSwati crime fiction and drama / Kerry Vincent -- "My characters, my plots, are under my pen": authority as dictatorship in King-Aribisala's The hangman's game / Madeleine Wilson -- Forms of resistance -- Figuring the dictator in the Horn of Africa: Nuruddin Farah's dictatorship trilogy and Ahmed Omar Askar's short stories / Fiona Moolla -- "Under the lion's gaze": representing female sexuality and power in authoritarian contexts / Asante Lucy Mtenje -- Mighty mouth, minor literature? Siad Barre's dictatorship in Italian postcolonial literature / Teresa Solis and Lorenzo Mari. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | African literature 20th century History and criticism Dictators in literature Dictators Africa |