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Achebe, Chinua

Dictators, dictatorship and the African novelfictions of the state under neoliberalism /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dictators, dictatorship and the African novelby Robert Spencer.
Reminder of title:	fictions of the state under neoliberalism /
Author:	Spencer, Robert.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	ix, 276 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	African fictionHistory and criticism.20th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2
ISBN:	9783030665562$q(electronic bk.)

Dictators, dictatorship and the African novelfictions of the state under neoliberalism /
Spencer, Robert.

Dictators, dictatorship and the African novelfictions of the state under neoliberalism /[electronic resource] :by Robert Spencer. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - ix, 276 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New comparisons in world literature,2634-6095. - New comparisons in world literature..

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.

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 Ngugi 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)

ISBN: 9783030665562$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2doiSubjects--Personal Names:

435812
Ngugi wa Thiong'o,
1938---Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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African fiction
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PL8010.6 / .S64 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 809.39351

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