The Space of Dictatorship: Monénembo, Hidden Transcripts, and a Metonymy of Violence.
This article centers on the representation of dictatorship by Guinean author Tierno Monénembo and aims to elucidate his fictional writing by reading it against recent theories on violence and sovereignty. In line with Nganang's notion of protestas , a metonymic chain of violence emerges in a number...
| Publicado en: | Research in African Literatures Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 153 - 178 |
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Indiana University Press
Fall2018
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