Fictions of African dictatorship : : postcolonial power across genres / / edited by Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, United Kingdom : , : Peter Lang, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 809.896 |
Collana | Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century |
Soggetto topico |
African literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Dictators in literature Dictators - Africa |
ISBN | 1-78707-682-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson -- ; Portrait of a dictator -- The image of Sékou Touré: art and the making of postcolonial Guinea / Angie Epifano -- From dictatorship to self-constitution: historical fiction and the aesthetics of tyranny in Bensalem Himmich's Le calife de l'épouvante / Khalid Lyamlahy -- "Where is our president?" Bekolo's 'Dictator' / Rita Keresztesi -- ; Myth-making/unreality/performance -- Creation through inversion: the carnivalesque postcolonial state in the novels of Alain Mabanckou and in Koli Jean Bofane / Eline Kuenen -- From ritual to fiction: The wizard of the crow / Maria Muresan -- Mythical representations of dictatorial power in the novels of Ahmadou Kourouma / Lucien Bindi Ngouté -- ; Compromised freedoms -- The author and the authoritarian: Gamal al-Ghitani's Al-Zayni Barakat / Alya El Hosseiny -- The one who does His Majesty's bidding: censorship and the banality of power in siSwati crime fiction and drama / Kerry Vincent -- "My characters, my plots, are under my pen": authority as dictatorship in King-Aribisala's The hangman's game / Madeleine Wilson -- ; Forms of resistance -- Figuring the dictator in the Horn of Africa: Nuruddin Farah's dictatorship trilogy and Ahmed Omar Askar's short stories / Fiona Moolla -- "Under the lion's gaze": representing female sexuality and power in authoritarian contexts / Asante Lucy Mtenje -- Mighty mouth, minor literature? Siad Barre's dictatorship in Italian postcolonial literature / Teresa Solis and Lorenzo Mari. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910293133903321 |
Oxford, United Kingdom : , : Peter Lang, , [2018] | ||
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Postcolonial slavery [[electronic resource] ] : an overview of colonialism's legacy / / edited by Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.362 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BakerCharlotte <1976->
JahnJennifer |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery
Postcolonialism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-41384-8
9786612413841 1-4438-1457-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. (Mis-)representations -- pt. II. Breaking silences, re-writing history -- pt. III. Postcolonial slavery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465151903321 |
Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2008 | ||
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Postcolonial slavery [[electronic resource] ] : an overview of colonialism's legacy / / edited by Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.362 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BakerCharlotte <1976->
JahnJennifer |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery
Postcolonialism |
ISBN |
1-282-41384-8
9786612413841 1-4438-1457-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. (Mis-)representations -- pt. II. Breaking silences, re-writing history -- pt. III. Postcolonial slavery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788991303321 |
Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2008 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial slavery : an overview of colonialism's legacy / / edited by Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.362 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BakerCharlotte <1976->
JahnJennifer |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery
Postcolonialism |
ISBN |
1-282-41384-8
9786612413841 1-4438-1457-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. (Mis-)representations -- pt. II. Breaking silences, re-writing history -- pt. III. Postcolonial slavery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811073503321 |
Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2008 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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