Unmasking the African dictator : essays on postcolonial African literature / edited by Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrigĩ ; with a foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
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Ndigirigi, Josphat Gichingiri (redaktör/utgivare)
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Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa (förord)
- ISBN 9781621900559
- First Edition.
- Publicerad: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2014]
- Engelska 312 sidor
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Serie: Tennessee Studies in Literature ; Volume 46
Innehållsförteckning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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 Lopès's Le pleurer-rire (The laughing cry) / Magali Armillas-Tiseyra -- Toxic fathers: Henri Lopès'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.
Ämnesord
- Postkolonialism i litteraturen (sao)
- Postkolonialism (sao)
- Diktatorer i litteraturen (sao)
- Afrikansk litteratur -- historia (sao)
- Afrikansk litteratur (engelskspråkig) -- historia (sao)
- Postcolonialism in literature. (LCSH)
- Dictators in literature. (LCSH)
- African literature -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- African literature (English) -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Postcolonialism -- Africa. (LCSH)
- Postcolonialism in literature (LCSH)
- Postcolonialism (LCSH)
- Dictators in literature (LCSH)
- Afrika (sao)
Klassifikation
- PL8010 (LCC)
- 809/.8896 (DDC)
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