Titel: | Fictions of African dictatorship |
Titelzusatz: | cultural representations of postcolonial power |
Mitwirkende: | Baker, Charlotte [HerausgeberIn] |
| Grayson, Hannah [HerausgeberIn] |
Verf.angabe: | edited by Charlotte Baker and Hanna Grayson |
Verlagsort: | Oxford ; Bern ; Berlin ; Bruxelles ; New York ; Wien |
Verlag: | Peter Lang |
Jahr: | 2018 |
Umfang: | vii, 262 Seiten |
Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
Format: | 23 cm |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century ; volume 4 |
Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Ang. zum Inhalt: | 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. |
ISBN: | 1-78707-681-4 |
| 978-1-78707-681-5 |
URL: | Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://d-nb.info/1176541242/04 |
| Verlag: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/61975 |
Schlagwörter: | (g)Afrika / (s)Literatur / (s)Diktator <Motiv> |
| (g)Afrika / (s)Literatur / (s)Diktator <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1900-2000 |
| (g)Afrika / (s)Literatur / (s)Diktatur <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1950-2015 |
Dokumenttyp: | Aufsatzsammlung |
Sprache: | eng |
K10plus-PPN: | 164543480X |
Verknüpfungen: | → Übergeordnete Aufnahme |