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

    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