Writing-back at the German and Kiswahili Archive: Hidden Transcripts and Critical Fabulations in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels Paradise and Afterlives
This article reads Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise and Afterlives through the lenses of James C. Scott’s “hidden transcripts” and Saidiya Hartman’s “critical fabulation.” It argues that Gurnah’s fiction performs epistemic repair by rendering visible subaltern East African perspectives marginalized in b...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2026
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | This article reads Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise and Afterlives through the lenses of James C. Scott’s “hidden transcripts” and Saidiya Hartman’s “critical fabulation.” It argues that Gurnah’s fiction performs epistemic repair by rendering visible subaltern East African perspectives marginalized in both the German colonial archive and Swahili elite writings. The novels thus function as literary archives that complicate colonial historiography and contribute to the decolonization of knowledge about German East Africa. |
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