1st Edition
Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship The Aesthetics of Tyranny
By Cecile Bishop
Copyright 2014
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
125 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
Cecile Bishop
