Dictators, dictatorship and the African novel : fictions of the state under neoliberalism / Robert Spencer.
2021
PL8010.6 .S64 2021
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Title
Dictators, dictatorship and the African novel : fictions of the state under neoliberalism / Robert Spencer.
ISBN
3030665569 (electronic book)
9783030665562 (electronic bk.)
3030665550
9783030665555
9783030665562 (electronic bk.)
3030665550
9783030665555
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (IX, 276 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2 doi
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PL8010.6 .S64 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.39351
Summary
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).
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New comparisons in world literature, 2634-6095
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The unfinished project of decolonisation
Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and the 'recolonization' of Africa
Chapter 3: Performance and power I: Ngũgĩ 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.
Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and the 'recolonization' of Africa
Chapter 3: Performance and power I: Ngũgĩ 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.