“Time cheats all of us like that:” Time as Writing Matter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
The object of this article is to delve into the issue of time in Paradise. There is a sense of chronological time in the novel, but there are also repetitive references to events, which may be read as an alternative to a conception of time as linear and teleological. Time in Gurnah’s novel is also c...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla, |
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| Autor principal: | Chemmachery, Jaine |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2026
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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