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Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel - Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel - Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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 Ngugi 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.
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