Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism

By:

Robert Spencer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New Comparisons in World Literature

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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.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

March 3rd, 2022

Author

Robert Spencer

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2021

Illustrations

1 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 276 p. 1 illus.

Pages

276

Series

New Comparisons in World Literature

ISBN-13

9783030665586

Product ID

35694014

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