Heritage as Nightmare: the Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah from Zanzibar has emerged since the early 1990s as one of the most important new voices in East African Anglophone fiction. This article seeks to emphasise the new perspectives opened up by a type of writing which transcends the tendency of certain cultural nationalist authors to a...
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| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Abdulrazak Gurnah from Zanzibar has emerged since the early 1990s as one of the most important new voices in East African Anglophone fiction. This article seeks to emphasise the new perspectives opened up by a type of writing which transcends the tendency of certain cultural nationalist authors to approach questions of colonial heritage in terms of a binary logic inspired by the confrontational theories of Frantz Fanon. Gurnah belongs to another generation whose apprehension of the hybrid nature of the contemporary world is informed by the nomadic experience of forced or self-imposed exile in the West. |
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