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Unmasking the African Dictator : essays on postcolonial African literature
- Title
- Unmasking the African Dictator : essays on postcolonial African literature / edited by Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrigĩ ; with a foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
- Publication
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ndigirigi, Josphat Gichingiri
- Description
- xxxi, 240 pages; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Tennessee Studies in Literature ; Volume 46
- Uniform Title
- Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 46.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-874
- ISBN
- 9781621900559
- 162190055X
- LCCN
- 2013047065
- OCLC
- 868981395
- Title
- Unmasking the African Dictator : essays on postcolonial African literature / edited by Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrigĩ ; with a foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
- Publisher
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2014]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Tennessee Studies in Literature ; Volume 46Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 46.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Ndigirigi, Josphat Gichingiri, editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-874