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Heritage as Nightmare: the Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah

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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Cyhoeddwyd yn:	URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces,
Prif Awdur:	Whyte, Philip
Fformat:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Iaith:	Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd:	Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2024
Mynediad Ar-lein:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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Abdulrazak Gurnah : Paradise
gan: Clary, Françoise, 1943-
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Reappraisal
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Reappraisal. Introduction.
gan: Joseph-Vilain, Cédric Courtois and Mélanie
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

Memories of Departure and other Stories in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Writings
gan: Ibiam, Harmony Ezinne
Cyhoeddwyd: (2024)

Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise.
gan: Raimbault, Élodie
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

Bodies in Contact: Corporeality, Mobility, and Change in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994)
gan: Lorre, Christine
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

Des récits de voyage aux textes voyageurs : le cas du roman Paradis, d’Abdulrazak Gurnah
gan: Carré, Nathalie
Cyhoeddwyd: (2021)

Writing-back at the German and Kiswahili Archive: Hidden Transcripts and Critical Fabulations in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels Paradise and Afterlives
gan: Berman, Nina, et al.
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)
gan: Dot, Maëlle Jeanniard du
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

“Time cheats all of us like that:” Time as Writing Matter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
gan: Chemmachery, Jaine
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

The landscape of nightmare : studies in the contemporary American novel
gan: Baumbach, Jonathan, 1933-
Cyhoeddwyd: (1965)

“Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
gan: Guignery, Vanessa
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

Dreamers and Nightmares
gan: Wang, Chaohua
Cyhoeddwyd: (2015)

Nightmare at the Museum : Princess Incognito
gan: Humphreys, N.J
Cyhoeddwyd: (2019)

The air-conditioned nightmare
gan: Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
Cyhoeddwyd: (1970)

Nightmares and Night Terrors.
Cyhoeddwyd: (2024)

“Yusuf sighed heavily, shamed by his failure and dishonour:” Poetics and Politics of Shame in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994) and Theft (2025)
gan: Courtois, Cédric
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

“He too rose to his feet, feeling vulnerable squatting on the floor”: Poetics and Politics of Vulnerability in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994)
gan: Courtois, Cédric
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

Nightmare in red : the McCarthy era in perspective
gan: Fried, Richard M., 1941-
Cyhoeddwyd: (1991)

Daydreams and nightmares : a sociological essay on the American environment
gan: Burch, William R, 1933-
Cyhoeddwyd: (1971)

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Les vies d’après, Traduit de l’anglais (Grande-Bretagne) par Sylvette Gleize. Denoël, 2023, 384 pages, 23 €
gan: Corruble, Raphaël
Cyhoeddwyd: (2024)

Recurrent Genocidal Nightmares : The Hidden Side of Euro-African Encounters, 1450-1950
gan: Mentan, Tatah, 1948-
Cyhoeddwyd: (2019)

Gothic nightmares : Fuseli, Blake and the romantic imagination : [exhibition, London, Tate Britain, 15 February - 1 May 2006]
gan: Myrone, Martin, 19..-, et al.
Cyhoeddwyd: (2006)

The Doha Development Agenda: From Nightmare to Dream?
gan: Lehmann, Jean-Pierre
Cyhoeddwyd: (2006)

New nightmares from Babylonia: BM 38553
gan: Zomer, Elyze
Cyhoeddwyd: (2020)

“She knew, just by looking at Abbas then, without knowing anything about him, that he had done things”: Secrecy and Discontinuous Lines of Transmission in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift (2011)
gan: Chemmachery, Jaine
Cyhoeddwyd: (2025)

From a Distance — the Remote Cityscape as Dream and Nightmare
gan: EDMONDSON, John
Cyhoeddwyd: (2016)

Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch
gan: Hunt, Hannah
Cyhoeddwyd: (2015)

A suburban mom’s nightmare : Malcolm, une série au bord de la crise de mère ?
gan: Gomot, Guillaume
Cyhoeddwyd: (2025)

Reading Modernist Fiction as War Testimony: The Case of D.H. Lawrence’s “Nightmare”
gan: Krockel, Carl
Cyhoeddwyd: (2014)

“Why do we have so many uncles?”: Linguistic Transference and Translationality in Gurnah’s Peponi and Dhulma.
gan: Hadjivayanis, Ida
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

THE ECONOMY OF DUBAI, Abdulrazak Al Faris et Raimundo Soto, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, 368 pages
gan: Gaillard, Norbert
Cyhoeddwyd: (2016)

West African Literature at the Crossroads: the Magical Realism of Ben Okri
gan: Whyte, Philip
Cyhoeddwyd: (2024)

Photography in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
gan: Whyte, Philip
Cyhoeddwyd: (2024)

Gender and Epic in Syl Cheney-Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
gan: Whyte, Philip
Cyhoeddwyd: (2024)

Text and Context: Anglophone Literary Production in Ghana since 1945
gan: Whyte, Philip
Cyhoeddwyd: (2024)

Strange/Stranger: Preface
gan: Whyte, Philip
Cyhoeddwyd: (2022)

The Treatment of Background in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
gan: Whyte, Philip
Cyhoeddwyd: (2022)

Ben Okri’s The Famished Road in the Context of Post-War West African Literature in English
gan: Whyte, Philip
Cyhoeddwyd: (2021)

Dream States: a lurking nightmare for World Order, Benjamin J. Cohen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025, 248 pages
gan: Lebœuf, Aline
Cyhoeddwyd: (2026)

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