Slavery and Extractivism: Reading Paradise through the Prism of Decolonial Ecology
This article reads Paradise, by Zanzibari-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah, through the critical approach of decolonial ecocriticism. It focuses on descriptions of extractivist practices in East Africa and connects them with colonialism and its ramifications in the economy of plantations and globali...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2026
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | This article reads Paradise, by Zanzibari-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah, through the critical approach of decolonial ecocriticism. It focuses on descriptions of extractivist practices in East Africa and connects them with colonialism and its ramifications in the economy of plantations and globalized trade, as well as in the practice of slavery. Such a reading of the novel connects trade, slavery and environmental damage as linked practices of exploitation which a decolonial approach can “delink” (Mignolo 2007). This line of investigation leads to a new interpretation of the omnipresent orality in the novel, as it reveals the sustainability of spoken transmission, a strategy deployed by the narration against confiscations of agency through commodification of various orders. |
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