Cecile Bishop: 1 book
Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship
The Aesthetics of Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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...
