This thesis investigates post-independence African and South Asian film and literatures for their attention to the fraught relationship between subjectivity and historic decolonisation. Amidst social, political and economic obstacles in the 1950s–80s, a pioneering generation of novels and films emerged. Although they were in many ways “literatures of disillusionment”, they also exposed neocolonialism to ask if, and how, resistance was possible. I propose the conceptual node of subjectivity as a polytonal but comprehensive means to read and interpret African and South Asian post-independence novels and films. Offering a materialist approach to the treatment of subjectivity via the thought of Frantz Fanon, I elucidate the dialectical relati...
Ousmane Sembène’s 1975 film Xala, a searing satire about the post-independence Senegalese elite, has...
As an historical, economical, as well as political discourse that has acutely and epistemologically ...
Shelley has once rightly stated that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, establ...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-323).This dissertation examines the representation ...
The object of the dissertation is British and Indian popular (commercial) cinema and the constructio...
The postcolonial narratives we see today are a study in contrast and tell a different tale from thei...
The aim of this research is to analyze the novel, Things Fall Apart as a liminal Identity: Thematic ...
This study focuses on the relationship between African cinema and colonialism and postcolonial disco...
This paper explores the implications of “decolonisation,†first by focusing on the work of Africa...
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twent...
This dissertation examines colonial and post-colonial discourse in the works of Yom Sang-sop of Kore...
The purpose of the book is to engage with South African Indian writings through a critical examinati...
The Chapter examines the development of the novel in Africa in relation to the movement of decolonis...
Through the analysis of Pepetela’s Mayombe, Ngugi’s Petals of Blood, Achebe’s Anthills of the ...
Colonialism and its aftermath prompt a form of cultural studies that seeks to address questions of i...
Ousmane Sembène’s 1975 film Xala, a searing satire about the post-independence Senegalese elite, has...
As an historical, economical, as well as political discourse that has acutely and epistemologically ...
Shelley has once rightly stated that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, establ...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-323).This dissertation examines the representation ...
The object of the dissertation is British and Indian popular (commercial) cinema and the constructio...
The postcolonial narratives we see today are a study in contrast and tell a different tale from thei...
The aim of this research is to analyze the novel, Things Fall Apart as a liminal Identity: Thematic ...
This study focuses on the relationship between African cinema and colonialism and postcolonial disco...
This paper explores the implications of “decolonisation,†first by focusing on the work of Africa...
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twent...
This dissertation examines colonial and post-colonial discourse in the works of Yom Sang-sop of Kore...
The purpose of the book is to engage with South African Indian writings through a critical examinati...
The Chapter examines the development of the novel in Africa in relation to the movement of decolonis...
Through the analysis of Pepetela’s Mayombe, Ngugi’s Petals of Blood, Achebe’s Anthills of the ...
Colonialism and its aftermath prompt a form of cultural studies that seeks to address questions of i...
Ousmane Sembène’s 1975 film Xala, a searing satire about the post-independence Senegalese elite, has...
As an historical, economical, as well as political discourse that has acutely and epistemologically ...
Shelley has once rightly stated that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, establ...