The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)
Drawing from theories of the Spatial Turn and from Abdulrazak Gurnah’s nonfiction writing, this article examines Gurnah’s poetic negotiations with the experience of place in the novels Paradise (1994) and By the Sea (2001). These narratives exemplify how place, for Abdulrazak Gurnah, is both implaca...
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2026
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | Drawing from theories of the Spatial Turn and from Abdulrazak Gurnah’s nonfiction writing, this article examines Gurnah’s poetic negotiations with the experience of place in the novels Paradise (1994) and By the Sea (2001). These narratives exemplify how place, for Abdulrazak Gurnah, is both implacable – an unescapable reality imposing itself on his fiction – and unplaceable – an intrinsically unstable signifier calling for interpretation. |
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