Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film w/ Sarah Jilani

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have the opportunity to discuss a fabulous new book, Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film with its brilliant author Sarah Jilani. Through examinations of novels and film from Africa and South Asia, Frantz Fanon's materialist approach to self and representations of subjectivity and decolonization are discussed. Really an outstanding conversation, we really hope Sarah will join us again for future conversations! Another project Sarah is involved with is Revolutionary Papers, and we look forward to discussing this project in weeks to come.

Sarah Jilani is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London, and a 2021 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. She is the author of several articles on postcolonial literatures and film that have appeared in Textual Practice, Interventions, and Journal of Commonwealth Literature, amongst others, and a widely published culture journalist. Keep up to date with Sarah by checking out her website for more of her work, and follow her on twitter @sarahjilani.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Bamboo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.3	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.9	I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:44.4	Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing
0:48.7	today? I'm doing great, Henry. It's wonderful to be with you. Yeah, absolutely. It's great seeing you,
0:55.0	as always. We have a terrific guest and a really fascinating book that we'll be talking about
1:00.9	in the conversation today. But before I introduce the guest and the book that we'll be talking
1:05.3	about, I would like to remind the listeners that you can help support the show and allow us to
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1:31.0	So as I mentioned, we have a really terrific guest today and a really fascinating book, which
1:34.9	I really enjoyed reading.
1:36.4	Our guest is Sarah Jalani, who is a lecturer at City University of London, an author of the
1:43.0	very, very new book, which actually is not even released by the time we're recording this conversation, but will be by the time you're hearing this listeners. The title of the book is subjectivity and decolonization in the post-independence novel and film. Hello, Sarah. It's nice to have you on the show. Hi, Henry. It's great to be here.
2:02.4	Lovely to see you. And like I said, I really enjoyed the book and I'm looking forward to this
2:05.7	conversation. But Adnan, you were the one who invited Sarah onto the show because you recently
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