Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-66555-5 (ISBN)
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.
lt;p>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: 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.
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.04.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Comparisons in World Literature |
Zusatzinfo | IX, 276 p. 1 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 503 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Ahmadou Kourouma • Arrighi • Authoritarian state structures • Capitalist imperialism • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Chinua Achebe • Decolonisation • Frederic Jameson • Ng g wa Thiong'o • Ng g Wa Thiong'o • Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o • Postcolonialism • Recolonisation • Sub-Saharan Africa |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-66555-0 / 3030665550 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-66555-5 / 9783030665555 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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