ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors draw on Telling a Tale as an archive to explore post/decolonial politics and alternative imaginaries. Manjushree Thapa's story is part of Telling a Tale, a collection of personal narrations about being, becoming and writing as a girl or woman in contemporary Nepal. The stories highlight the diverse ways in which Nepali girls and women from various social backgrounds navigate complex social structures such as gender, caste, religion, marital status and ethnicity and how these have shaped their identities. These stories address two key issues at the heart of coloniality and post/decolonial politics: the ways in which coloniality has shaped, and continues to shape, gendered forms of knowledge production and subjectivity formation, even in a country that was never colonised, such as Nepal. The authors present the theoretical debates around gender, knowledge production and subjectivity in post/decolonial thinking.
