Subjectivity and decolonisation in the post-independence novel and film /
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 decolonization. Subjectivity and Decolonisation...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2024].
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| Summary: | 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 decolonization. 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 'decolonizing the mind.' Guided by the psycho-political thought of Frantz Fanon, who maps a dialectical relationship between decolonization 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 decolonization. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-181) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781399507288 1399507281 |