Subjectivity and decolonisation in the post-independence novel and film / Sarah Jilani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jilani, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization in literature.

Decolonization in motion pictures.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Postcolonialism in motion pictures.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 191 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

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 decolonisation. This book 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Reconciling Us To Ourselves: Decolonisation and the Question of Subjectivity

2 Women and Anti-Colonial Nationalisms: Gendering Subjectivity in Satyajit Ray’s Home and the World and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat

3 Neocolonialism’s Subjects: Complicity and Resistance in Ousmane Sembène’s Xala and Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

4 History From Within: Violence and Subjective Experience in Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star and Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra

5 Emplacing the Self: Environment and Labour in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Souleymane Cissé’s Work

Conclusion

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-3995-0730-3

OCLC:

1435580660