Dictator literature
Dictator literature (abbreviated as dic-lit[1] or dictator lit[2]) is the body of literature written by or attributed to dictators.[3][4] Although some dictator literature consists of poetry, most are prose,[5] including such works as novels,[6] theoretical texts, tracts, and memoirs.[4] Vladimir Lenin is considered to be the father of dictator literature in the 20th century, and many other dictators of the century followed suit with their own writings, such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong.[5]
References
Citations
- ^ Self, Will (2018-04-25). "Dictator Literature by Daniel Kalder review – the deathly prose of dic-lit". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
- ^ Dickey, Colin (2018-03-22). "Why Dictators Write". The New Republic. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
- ^ Kalder 2018, p. xiii.
- ^ a b Hammond 2020, p. 82.
- ^ a b Senoussi 2023, p. 255.
- ^ Spencer 2021, p. 4.
Bibliography
- Hammond, Andrew (2020). "'Our Embattled Humanity': Global Literature in an Authoritarian Age". In Hammond, Andrew (ed.). The Palgrave handbook of Cold War literature. Palgrave handbooks. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 63–82. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38973-4_4. ISBN 978-3-030-38973-4.
- Kalder, Daniel (2018-03-06). The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-1-62779-342-1.
- Senoussi, Mohammed (2023-03-15). "The Psychology of Dictatorship: A Journey into Muammar Gaddafi's Mind in Yasmina Khadra's The Dictator's Last Night". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 64 (2): 241–256. doi:10.1080/00111619.2021.1992337. ISSN 0011-1619.
- Spencer, Robert (2021). Dictators, dictatorship and the african novel: fictions of the state under neoliberalism. New Comparisons in World Literature. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2. ISBN 978-3-030-66556-2.