LEADER 04064nam 22007095 450 001 9910484289703321 005 20230810172348.0 010 $a9783030665562 010 $a3030665569 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011781473 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6511358 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6511358 035 $a(OCoLC)1241448753 035 $a(MiFhGG)9783030665562 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-66556-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011781473 100 $a20210301d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel $eFictions of the State under Neoliberalism /$fby Robert Spencer 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aNew Comparisons in World Literature,$x2634-6109 311 08$a9783030665555 311 08$a3030665550 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: The unfinished project of decolonisation -- Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and the 'recolonization' of Africa -- Chapter 3: Performance and power I: Ng?g? 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. . 330 $aThis book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the 'neoliberal' period after the 1970s as an effective 'recolonization' of Africa by Western states and international financial institutions. Dictatorship is theorised as a form of concentrated economic and political power that facilitates Africa's continued dependency in the context of world capitalism. The deepest aspiration of anti-colonial revolution remains the democratization of these authoritarian states inherited from the colonial period. This book discusses four novels by Ng?g? wa Thiong'o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in order to reveal how their themes and forms dramatize this unfinished struggle between dictatorship and radical democracy. Robert Spencer is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature (2011) and the co-author of For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics, with David Alderson (2017), and co-author of Postcolonial Locations: New Directions in Postcolonial Studies, with Anastasia Valassopoulos (2020). . 410 0$aNew Comparisons in World Literature,$x2634-6109 606 $aLiterature 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aImperialism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aAfrican Literature 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 606 $aContemporary Literature 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a823 676 $a809.39351 700 $aSpencer$b Robert$0202073 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484289703321 996 $aDictators, dictatorship and the African novel$91898190 997 $aUNINA