The Coup (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: 1973, with flashbacks to the 1950’s
- Setting: Kush, a fictional African country; and Franchise, Wisconsin
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Political fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1970’s, Africa or Africans, Power, personal or social, Midwest, Kings, queens, or royalty, Rulers, Wit or humor
- Locales: Kush, Africa, Wisconsin
Characters Discussed
Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû (hah-KEEM fay-LEE ehl-lay-LEW), the forty-year-old, self-effacing president of Kush, a sub-Saharan African state. After the 1968 coup against French colonial authorities, he became minister of defense, then president after the assassination of his predecessor. Previously, as a student at conservative McCarthy College in Wisconsin, he had his strict Muslim Marxist beliefs confirmed by what he considered to be capitalist greed and consumerism. He has brought back Candace from the United States but keeps her muffled in purdah....
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John Updike (Cyclopedia of World Authors)John Updike (Poetry)John Updike (Short Fiction)John Updike (Long Fiction)John Updike (Identities and Issues)John Updike (Sixties in America)
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