@article{1435304,
      recid = {1435304},
      author = {Spencer, Robert,},
      title = {Dictators, dictatorship and the African novel : fictions  of the state under neoliberalism /},
      pages = {1 online resource (IX, 276 pages)},
      abstract = {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. 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).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1435304},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2},
}