Social:Dictator literature
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Short description: Literature written by dictators
Dictator literature (abbreviated as dic-lit[1][2] or dictator lit[3]) is the body of literature written by or attributed to dictators.[4][5] Although some dictator literature consists of poetry, most are prose,[6] including such works as novels,[7] theoretical texts, tracts, and memoirs.[5] Vladimir Lenin is considered to be the father of dictator literature in the 20th century,[8] and many other dictators of the century followed suit with their own writings, such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong.[6]
References
Citations
- ↑ Self, Will (2018-04-25). "Dictator Literature by Daniel Kalder review – the deathly prose of dic-lit" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/25/dictator-literature-daniel-kalder-review.
- ↑ Kofman, Ava (2018). "Dic Lit". Dissent 65 (2): 173–175. doi:10.1353/dss.2018.0042. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dic-lit-infernal-library-dictators-daniel-kalder/. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
- ↑ Dickey, Colin (2018-03-22). "Why Dictators Write". The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/147595/dictators-write. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
- ↑ Kalder 2018, p. xiii.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hammond 2020, p. 82.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Senoussi 2023, p. 255.
- ↑ Spencer 2021, p. 4.
- ↑ Kalder 2018, p. 3.
Bibliography
- Hammond, Andrew (2020). "‘Our Embattled Humanity’: Global Literature in an Authoritarian Age". in Hammond, Andrew. 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. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-38973-4_4.
- Kalder, Daniel (2018-03-06) (in en). The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-1-62779-342-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=I8NHDwAAQBAJ.
- 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" (in en). Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 64 (2): 241–256. doi:10.1080/00111619.2021.1992337. ISSN 0011-1619. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00111619.2021.1992337.
- 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. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66556-2.
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