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 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...