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Cecile Bishop

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny (Research Monographs on French Studies). To get started finding Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny (Research Monographs on French Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny (Research Monographs on French Studies). To get started finding Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny (Research Monographs on French Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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