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Unmasking the African Dictator

2014 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014
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Book Synopsis Unmasking the African Dictator by : Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ

Download or read book Unmasking the African Dictator written by Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, the development of dictatorship fiction as a vehicle for depicting the authoritarian state arose more slowly than in other parts of the world. Therefore until now there has been no exploration of the fictional and dramatic representations of tyrannical regimes in Africa. In Unmasking the African Dictator, Gichingiri Ndigirigi redresses that imbalance. This volume features twelve articles from both established and emerging scholars who undertake representative readings of the African despot in fiction, drama, films, and music. Arranged chronologically, these essays cover postcolonial realities in a wide range of countries: Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, the Congo, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Somalia, Kenya, and Uganda. Included here are a variety of voices that illuminate the different aspects of dictator fiction in Africa and in the process enrich our understanding of the continent's literature, politics, and culture. This work features a foreword by formerly exiled Kenyan novelist, poet, and critic Ngugi wa Thiongo. Ndigirigi's own extended introduction reviews the overarching themes found in the collection and summarizes each of the artistic works being examined while placing the individual essays in context. A pioneering study, Unmasking the African Dictator examines the works of several major authors of dictator fictions including Achebe, Ngugi, Farah, and Tamsi.

Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

2021-03-01 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel by : Robert Spencer

Download or read book Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel written by Robert Spencer. This book was released on 2021-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Ngũgĩ 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.

Unmasking the African Ghost

2022-04-26 Religion
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Release : 2022-04-26
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Unmasking the African Ghost by : Cyril Orji

Download or read book Unmasking the African Ghost written by Cyril Orji. This book was released on 2022-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Africa is a ghost story with two plots. One is foreign or imported and the other indigenous or local. The foreign plot has its origin in colonial history. The indigenous plot is African in origin. But both plots end in the same place: African trauma and culture complex. These narratives create in modern Africa a splintered consciousness and the political and economic conditions that lead to physical and psychological violence. Unmasking the African Ghost is both a theological exploration of the reasons the political and economic systems in African countries have failed and a proposal for the paths toward recovery, anchored in the belief that Africa is a continent continuously trying to redefine its identity in the face of Eurocentrism. For the church in Africa to be a church at the service of its people, theology in Africa must take misery and oppression as the context for its reflections and its reconstruction of the social order. An African solution to African problems must be able to meet the needs of the time. It must look to the African past to draw from its riches--particularly the African sociopolitical ethic of ubuntu. It must also look ahead and draw from the best available sociopolitical system of modern states: liberal democracy. A hybrid of these two yields ubuntucracy. Ubuntucracy removes the ghosts of both Africa and its Western colonizers and begins a new story that can help Africa survive its double bind.

Unmasking the African Dictator

1956 African literature
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Release : 1956
Genre : African literature
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Book Synopsis Unmasking the African Dictator by : Josphat Gichingiri Ndigirigi

Download or read book Unmasking the African Dictator written by Josphat Gichingiri Ndigirigi. This book was released on 1956. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. [1] Papers selected from the program of the 51st annual meeting of the Tennessee Philological Association, 1956.

The Dictator Novel

2019-07-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2019-07-15
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Book Synopsis The Dictator Novel by : Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

Download or read book The Dictator Novel written by Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra. This book was released on 2019-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But “dictator novels” do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship. As this genre has developed and cohered, it has acquired a self-generating force distinct from its historical referents. The dictator novel has become a space in which writers consider the difficulties of national consolidation, explore the role of external and global forces in sustaining dictatorship, and even interrogate the political functions of writing itself. Literary representations of the dictator, therefore, provide ground for a self-conscious and self-critical theorization of the relationship between writing and politics itself. The Dictator Novel positions novels about dictators as a vital genre in the literatures of the Global South. Primarily identified with Latin America, the dictator novel also has underacknowledged importance in the postcolonial literatures of francophone and anglophone Africa. Although scholars have noted similarities, this book is the first extensive comparative analysis of these traditions; it includes discussions of authors including Gabriel García Márquez, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Mármol, Esteban Echeverría, Ousmane Sembène , Chinua Achebe, Aminata Sow Fall, Henri Lopès, Sony Labou Tansi, and Ahmadou Kourouma. This juxtaposition illuminates the internal dynamics of the dictator novel as a literary genre. In so doing, Armillas-Tiseyra puts forward a comparative model relevant to scholars working across the Global South.

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