| Edition |
First Edition. |
| Description |
xxxi, 240 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Tennessee Studies in Literature ; Volume 46
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Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 46.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
African literature -- History and criticism.
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African literature. |
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African literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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African literature (English) |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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Postcolonialism -- Africa.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Africa. |
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Dictators in literature.
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Dictators in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, Gĩchingiri, editor.
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| ISBN |
162190055X (hardcover) |
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9781621900559 (hardcover) |
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