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Author Sony Lab'Ou Tansi, author.

Title The shameful state / Sony Labou Tansi ; translated by Dominic Thomas ; foreword by Alain Mabanckou.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Global African voices
Global African voices.
Summary "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 showcase for the linguistic and stylistic inventiveness that are the hallmark of Sony Labou Tansi's work. This first English translation by Dominic Thomas includes a foreword by Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou that contextualizes the novel's importance in literary history and the significance of Sony Labou Tansi for future generations of writers."--Publisher summary.
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Subject Presidents -- Africa -- Fiction.
Corruption -- Africa -- Fiction.
Political violence -- Africa -- Fiction.
FICTION -- General.
Corruption. (OCoLC)fst01352550
Political violence. (OCoLC)fst01069902
Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Added Author Thomas, Dominic Richard David, translator.
Added Title État honteux. English
Other Form: Print version: Sony Lab'Ou Tansi. État honteux. English. Shameful state 9780253019257 (DLC) 2015021504 (OCoLC)910664572
ISBN 9780253019325 (electronic bk.)
025301932X (electronic bk.)
Music No. MWT11539439
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