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020 |a9781315089591|q(e-book : PDF)
020 |a9781351553551|q(e-book: Mobi)
020 |z9781909662018|q(hardback)
024 7 |a10.4324/9781315089591|2doi
035 |a(OCoLC)993655745
041 |aeng
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049 |aTürk Tarih Kurumu Kütüphanesi
050 4|aPQ3980.5|b.B55 2014
082 04|a840.996|bB622
100 1 |aBishop, Cecile,|eauthor.
245 10|aPostcolonial criticism and representations of African dictatorship :|bthe aesthetics of tyranny /|cCecile Bishop.
264 1|aLondon :|bLegenda, Modern Humanities Research Association, and Maney Publishing,|c2014.
300 |a1 online resource (125 pages)
490 1 |aResearch monographs in French studies ;|vVolume 41
504 |aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 114-121) and index.
505 0 |aIntroduction : African dictators and postcolonial critics -- Two readings of Henri Lopes's Le Pleurer-rire -- 'The truth about Amin' -- Achille Mbembe and the disorder of discourse.
520 |a"The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist cliches portraying Africans as incapable of self-government. Against the heavily-politicized responses provoked by this dilemma, Bishop argues for a form of criticism that places the complexity of the reader's or spectator's experiences at the heart of its investigations. Ranging across literature, film and political theory, this study calls for a reengagement with notions - often seen as unwelcome diversions from political questions - such as referentiality, genre and aesthetics. But rather than pit 'political' approaches against formal and aesthetic procedures, the author presents new insights into the interplay of the political and the aesthetic. Cecile Bishop is a Junior Research Fellow in French at Somerville College, Oxford."--Provided by publisher.
650 0|aAfrican literature (French)|xHistory and criticism.
650 0|aPostcolonialism in literature.
650 0|aDictatorship|zAfrica.
776 08|iPrint version:|z9781909662018|w(DLC) 2014471102
830 0|aResearch monographs in French studies ;|vVolume 41.
856 40|uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315089591|zClick here to view.
901 |aTaylor & Francis
