Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film

Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film
by: Sarah Jilani (Author)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: 2024/6/30
Language: English
Print Length: 200 pages
ISBN-10: 1399507281
ISBN-13: 9781399507288
Book Description
The decades following the independences from colonialism saw a pioneering generation of realist novels and films emerge across Africa and South Asia. They told stories of people living through national circumstances fast diverging from the promises of decolonisation. Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film explores how post-independence texts critique their own political conditions by choosing to narrate a different, but related, problem – that which Ngugi wa Thiong’o once called ‘decolonising the mind’. Guided by the psycho-political thought of Frantz Fanon, who maps a dialectical relationship between decolonisation and the self, this book considers how eight well known and less studied works from the 1950s–1980s. Together, they help us understand how the transformation of subjectivities is a materially consequential process that sits squarely within the broader, unfinished project that is decolonisation.
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The decades following the independences from colonialism saw a pioneering generation of realist novels and films emerge across Africa and South Asia. They told stories of people living through national circumstances fast diverging from the promises of decolonisation. Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film explores how post-independence texts critique their own political conditions by choosing to narrate a different, but related, problem – that which Ngugi wa Thiong’o once called ‘decolonising the mind’. Guided by the psycho-political thought of Frantz Fanon, who maps a dialectical relationship between decolonisation and the self, this book considers how eight well known and less studied works from the 1950s–1980s. Together, they help us understand how the transformation of subjectivities is a materially consequential process that sits squarely within the broader, unfinished project that is decolonisation. Read more