Dictators, Dictatorship And The African Novel: Fictions Of The State Under Neoliberalism
Robert Spencer
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 Ngũgĩ 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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Рік:
2021
Видання:
1st Edition
Видавництво:
Palgrave Macmillan
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
283
ISBN 10:
3030665569
ISBN 13:
9783030665562
Серії:
New Comparisons In World Literature
Файл:
PDF, 2.56 MB
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english, 2021
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