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The Shameful State
Sony Labou Tansi
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Description for The Shameful State
Paperback. Translator(s): Thomas, Dominic. Series: Global African Voices. Num Pages: 132 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 8. Weight in Grams: 177.
Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation's president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live. Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while his nation falls apart. Unable to resist the dictator's will, his desperate citizens are left with nothing but humiliation. The evocation of this deranged world is a ... Read more
Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation's president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live. Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while his nation falls apart. Unable to resist the dictator's will, his desperate citizens are left with nothing but humiliation. The evocation of this deranged world is a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Global African Voices
Condition
New
Weight
176g
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253019257
SKU
V9780253019257
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About Sony Labou Tansi
Sony Labou Tansi (1947-1995) was a Congolese novelist, playwright, and poet whose groundbreaking work transformed postcolonial francophone African literature. He is author of Life and a Half (IUP, 2011). Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Chair in French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Alain Mabanckou is Professor of French ... Read more
Reviews for The Shameful State
Mixing surreal violence with pointed political commentary, Tansi uses his linguistic talents to create a narrative that is sadly believable and impossible to ignore.
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
[Sony Labou Tansi is] one of the leading African writers.
Le Monde
One part madcap farce, one part chamber of horrors, one part modernist look at the jumbling of ... Read more
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
[Sony Labou Tansi is] one of the leading African writers.
Le Monde
One part madcap farce, one part chamber of horrors, one part modernist look at the jumbling of ... Read more