“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)
This article deals with Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel The Last Gift, which revolves around a family secret. It discusses transgenerational transmission (or lack thereof) within immigrant families since the two children, Hanna and Jamal, born in England, feel that their absence of belonging is predicated...
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2025
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | This article deals with Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel The Last Gift, which revolves around a family secret. It discusses transgenerational transmission (or lack thereof) within immigrant families since the two children, Hanna and Jamal, born in England, feel that their absence of belonging is predicated upon the untold secrets of their parents, one having left his native Zanzibar in his thirties, the other having been raised in various foster families in England. The novel is an invitation to think of transmission not as a linear process but as one that implies the recollection of fragmentary elements and collective agency. |
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