Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny

ISBN-13: 9780367601355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 136 str.

Cecile Bishop

Opis

This book provides an understanding of the kind of work that representations of African dictatorship do. It explores the contradictions that arise from postcolonial critics' simultaneous investment in aesthetics and in politics.

Spis treści

Introduction: African Dictators and Postcolonial Critics 1. Two Readings of Henri Lopes's Le Pleurer-rire 2. The Truth about Amin' 3. Achille Mbembe and the Disorder of Discourse 4. Conclusion

O autorze

Cecile Bishop