Gender, Subjectivity and Ngũgĩ's Post-Independence Vision
Blog: ROAPE
ROAPE celebrates the life and work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who turned 85 in January this year. To mark the occasion, we share an extract on Ngũgĩ's early novel A Grain of Wheat (1967), adapted from Sarah Jilani's forthcoming book Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film. Jilani explores Anglophone and Francophone post-independence texts (1950s–1980s) from Africa and South Asia to consider what 'decolonising the mind' could mean, and entail. Guided by the thought of Frantz Fanon, the book demonstrates how a selection of literary and cinematic narratives from this period help us understand the transformation of subjectivities themselves as a part of the broader, unfinished project that is decolonisation.
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