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Whittle, MJ (2015) “These dogs will do as we say”: African nationalism in the era of decolonization in David Caute’s At Fever Pitch and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51 (3). pp. 269-282. ISSN 1744-9855
Abstract
This article examines responses to the impact of colonialism on post-independence national unity in Africa from the perspective of the colonizer and the colonized. Written out of experience of decolonization in Ghana, At Fever Pitch, written by the British novelist David Caute and published by Deutsch in 1959, depicts western models of economic development and nationhood as derailing the emancipatory possibilities of colonial self-determination. It is a preoccupation that was also central to anti-colonial political thought during the era of decolonization, most notably in Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1965), and would become highly contested in the field of postcolonial studies. Rather than viewing the perspectives of the colonizer as fundamentally antithetical to postcolonial politics, this article analyses the way in which Caute and Fanon mount two distinct but not oppositional critical responses to the transfer of power from European imperial elites to a self-interested national middle class. By attending to the form of At Fever Pitch, moreover, this article will register the extent to which Caute’s intervention into debates about the rise of nationalism in the colonies disrupts prevailing interpretations of British “end of empire” fiction as mourning the end of British colonial dominance.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51:3, 269-282, on 21 Oct 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17449855.2014.968289. |
Keywords: | African decolonization; David Caute; Frantz Fanon; nationalism; the end of empire |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2016 09:44 |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2016 11:18 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2014.968289 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17449855.2014.968289 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98422 |
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