Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film

Edinburgh University Press

Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and FilmAuthor(s): Sarah Jilani\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399507295, 978-1399507295\nSynopsis\nThe 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. \nSubjectivity 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 Thiongo 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.