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Titre(s) : Unmasking the African dictator [Texte imprimé] : essays on postcolonial African literature / edited by Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrigĩ ; with a foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Édition : First Edition
Publication : Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2014]
Description matérielle : xxxi, 240 pages ; 23 cm
Collection : Tennessee Studies in Literature ; Volume 46
Lien à la collection : Tennessee studies in literature
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, Gĩchingiri. Éditeur scientifique
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025). Préfacier
Sujet(s) : Littérature africaine -- Thèmes, motifs
Dictateurs -- Dans la littérature
Littérature postcoloniale -- Afrique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781621900559 (hardcover). - ISBN 162190055X (hardcover)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442015678
Notice n° :
FRBNF44201567
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