AMY RUSHTON, RE-READING TRAGIC AFRICA: DEVELOPMENT, NEOLIBERALISM, AND CONTEMPORARY FICTION, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2024, PP. 195.

Having been the subject of several academic studies in terms of colonialism, Africa has been addressed in various paradigms in recent years. One such example is Amy Rushton’s Re-reading Tragic Africa: Development, Neoliberalism and the Contemporary Novel. Placing her book at the centre of development and neoliberalism, Rushton covers contemporary African issues in the light of the contemporary novels by three authors of African origin. This paper aims to provide an academic book review of Rushton’s work, which has six main chapters, incorporating an introduction and a conclusion.