Unmasking the African dictator : essays on postcolonial African literature / edited by Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ ; with a foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, Gĩchingiri, editor.

Series:

Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 46.

Tennessee studies in literature ; volume 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

African literature (English)--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

Postcolonialism in literature.

Postcolonialism--Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Africa.

Dictators in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 240 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2014]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781621900559

162190055X

OCLC:

868981395