{"product_id":"9783030665555","title":"Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel : Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism (New Comparisons in World Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 Ng g 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introduction: The unfinished project of decolonisation.-  Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and the 'recolonization' of Africa.- Chapter 3: Performance and power I: Ng g wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow.- Chapter 4: Performance and power II: Ahmadou Kourouma's Waiting for the Wild.- Chapter 5: Allegories of dictatorship in Nigerian fiction: Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The counter-counter revolution. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert Spencer\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and the co-author of \u003ci\u003eFor Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, with David Alderson (2017), and co-author of \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Locations: New Directions in Postcolonial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, with Anastasia Valassopoulos (2020). \n \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52409769525559,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":595.92,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9783030665555","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}