Ahmadou kourouma biography of michael jackson
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An examination of the satiric vision of Ahmadou Kourouma in 'Waiting for the wild beasts to vote
2008
This thesis examines Ahmadou Kourouma's Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote, a novel that mainly satirizes post-colonial African dictatorships. Kourouma entrusts his narrative to a satirical griot-narrator, and the novel adopts a mock-epic mode. This complicates the novel's narrative, and allows the reader to compare the satiric and griotic forms in the examination of Kourouma's overall satiric vision. In his satirization of post-colonial African forms of governance, Kourouma puts to maximum use oral literary techniques such as proverbs, repetition, and song, as satiric tools for mocking, criticising and attacking human folly and wickedness. Both satire and the mock-epic modes' affinity with parody, fantasy, and myth are extensively explored in this thesis. This thesis argues that the combination of griotic and satiric methods that characterizes Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote make it a questioning, demystifying, and subversive novel, giving it a magical realist and post-modernist flavour. In examining Kourouma's literary methods, this thesis uses Thomas Hale's extensive work on the griotic roles in West Africa. This, it is hoped, will furth
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