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02509aam a2200421 i 4500 001 00A210966B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150529s2016 inu 000 f eng c 010 $a 2015021504 020 $a 0253019257 020 $a 9780253019257 035 $a (OCoLC)910664572 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c INU $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CGP $d OCLCO $d PUL $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NYP $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a PQ3989.2 S64 E813 2016 100 0 $a Sony Lab'Ou Tansi, $e author. 240 10 $a ©Âtat honteux. $l English 245 14 $a The shameful state : $b a novel / $c Sony Labou Tansi ; Translated by Dominic Thomas ; Foreword by Alain Mabanckou. 264 1 $a Bloomington ; $b Indiana University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a ix, 116 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Global African voices 520 0 $a "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. 500 $a Translation of: L' ©Âtat honteux. Paris : Editions du Seuil, 1981. 546 $a Translated from the French. 650 0 $a Corruption $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Africa $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Thomas, Dominic Richard David, $e translator. 700 1 $a Mabanckou, Alain, $e writer of foreword. 830 0 $a Global African voices. 941 $a 3 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220104014416.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180120061400.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826043758.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=00A210966B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search