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Fictions of African Dictatorship Examines the Fictional Representation of the African Dictator and the Performance of Dictatorship Across Genres w race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume includes Fictions of African Dictatorship FICTIONS contributions focusing on literature, theatre and film, all of which examine the relationship between the fictional and the political. Among the questions the contributors ask: what are the implications of reading a novel for its historical content or accuracy? How does the dictator novel interrogate ideas of verac- OF AFRICAN ity? How is power performed and ridiculed? How do different writers reflect on questions of authority in the postcolony, and what are the effects on their stories and modes of narration? This volume untangles some of the intricate workings of dictatorial power in the postcolony, through twelve close readings of works of fiction. It interrogates the intersections between real and literary space, exploring DICTATORSHIP censorship, political critique and creative resistance. Insights into a wide range of lesser known texts and contexts make this volume an original and insightful contribution to scholarship on representations of dictatorship. Baker and Grayson (eds) Cultural Representations Charlotte Baker is Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at Lancas- ter University. Her research focuses on Francophone and Anglophone African of Postcolonial Power literature. She is working on a monograph examining the critical engagement of post-independence West African writers with dictatorship. She is also interested in the potential of the arts to bring about social change, particularly for people Edited by Charlotte Baker in sub-Saharan Africa with the genetic condition albinism, and has published widely in this field. and Hannah Grayson Hannah Grayson is Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Stirling. Her research focuses on crisis and recovery in Francophone African fiction, and the relationships between subjects and space. She has conducted AHRC-funded research on the testimonies of people who lived through the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and continues to work on memory and storytelling in sub-Saharan Africa. ISBN 978-1-78707-681-5 www.peterlang.com PETER LANG RRAB 04_707681_Baker_Grayson_JS HC 153x229 OXF.indd 1 12.10.18 14:22 w race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume includes Fictions of African Dictatorship FICTIONS contributions focusing on literature, theatre and film, all of which examine the relationship between the fictional and the political. Among the questions the contributors ask: what are the implications of reading a novel for its historical content or accuracy? How does the dictator novel interrogate ideas of verac- OF AFRICAN ity? How is power performed and ridiculed? How do different writers reflect on questions of authority in the postcolony, and what are the effects on their stories and modes of narration? This volume untangles some of the intricate workings of dictatorial power in the postcolony, through twelve close readings of works of fiction. It interrogates the intersections between real and literary space, exploring DICTATORSHIP censorship, political critique and creative resistance. Insights into a wide range of lesser known texts and contexts make this volume an original and insightful contribution to scholarship on representations of dictatorship. Baker and Grayson (eds) Cultural Representations Charlotte Baker is Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at Lancas- ter University. Her research focuses on Francophone and Anglophone African of Postcolonial Power literature. She is working on a monograph examining the critical engagement of post-independence West African writers with dictatorship. She is also interested in the potential of the arts to bring about social change, particularly for people Edited by Charlotte Baker in sub-Saharan Africa with the genetic condition albinism, and has published widely in this field. and Hannah Grayson Hannah Grayson is Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Stirling. Her research focuses on crisis and recovery in Francophone African fiction, and the relationships between subjects and space. She has conducted AHRC-funded research on the testimonies of people who lived through the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and continues to work on memory and storytelling in sub-Saharan Africa. www.peterlang.com PETER LANG RRAB 04_707681_Baker_Grayson_JS HC 153x229 OXF.indd 1 12.10.18 14:22 Fictions of African Dictatorship race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century Volume 4 Series Editors: Tessa Roynon, University of Oxford (Executive Editor) Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, University of the Witwatersrand Patricia Daley, University of Oxford Aaron Kamugisha, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Minkah Makalani, University of Texas, Austin Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, University College London Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century FICTIONS OF AFRICAN Volume 4 Series Editors: DICTATORSHIP Tessa Roynon, University of Oxford (Executive Editor) Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, University of the Witwatersrand Cultural Representations Patricia Daley, University of Oxford Aaron Kamugisha, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill of Postcolonial Power Minkah Makalani, University of Texas, Austin Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, University College London Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford Edited by Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson PETER LANG PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National- bibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Baker, Charlotte, 1976- editor. | Grayson, Hannah, editor. Title: Fictions of African dictatorship : cultural representations of postcolonial power / Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson. Description: New York : Peter Lang, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018009167 | ISBN 9781787076815 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: African literature--20th century--History and criticism. | Dictators in literature. | Dictators--Africa. Classification: LCC PL8010 .F449 2018 | DDC 809.896--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018009167 Classification: LCC PR878.I49 D38 2017 | DDC 823/.80936--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007737 An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the Open Access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org Cover image: Commemorative wraps (pagnes) printed on wax fabric in the 1960s depicting Ahmed Sekou Touré. Made in England for the Guinean market. Courtesy of Thomas Miles. The fabric exemplifies the reproduction of authoritarian imagery critiqued by Achille Mbembe and discussed in Part I of this volume. Cover design: © Olaf Gloeckler, Atelier Platen, Friedberg ISBN 2297-2552 • DOI 10.3726/b11381 ISBN 978-1-78707-681-5 (print) • ISBN 978-1-78707-682-2 (ePDF) ISBN 978-1-78707-683-9 (ePub) • ISBN 978-1-78707-684-6 (mobi) Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © Peter Lang AG 2018 Published by Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, 52 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU, United Kingdom [email protected], www.peterlang.com Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editors of this Work. This publication has been peer reviewed. Contents Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson Introduction: Fictions of African Dictatorship 1 Part I Portrait of a Dictator 11 Angie Epifano 1 The Image of Sékou Touré: Art and the Making of Postcolonial Guinea 13 Khalid Lyamlahy 2 From Dictatorship to Self-Constitution: Historical Fiction and Aesthetics of Tyranny in Bensalem Himmich’s Le Calife de l’épouvante 37 Rita Keresztesi 3 Bekolo’s ‘Dictator’: Televised 57 Part II Performance and Myth-Making 77 Eline Kuenen 4 Creation through Inversion: The Carnivalesque Postcolonial State in the Novels of Alain Mabanckou and In Koli Jean Bofane 79 Maria Muresan 5 From Ritual to Fiction: The Wizard of the Crow 99 vi Bindi Ngouté Lucien 6 Mythical Representations of Dictatorial Power and their Real Referents in the Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma 117 Part III Compromised Freedoms 139 Alya El Hosseiny 7 The Author and the Authoritarian: Gamal al-Ghitani’s al-Zaynī Barakāt 141 Kerry Vincent 8 The One Who Does His Majesty’s Bidding: Censorship and the Banality of Power in siSwati Crime Fiction and Drama 155 Madeleine
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