The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)

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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Glavni autor: Dot, Maëlle Jeanniard du
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Izdano: Postcolonial Literatures and Arts 2026
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place
gurnah
nonfiction
spatial turn
spellingShingle fiction
place
gurnah
nonfiction
spatial turn
Dot, Maëlle Jeanniard du
The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)
description 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.
author Dot, Maëlle Jeanniard du
author_facet Dot, Maëlle Jeanniard du
author_sort Dot, Maëlle Jeanniard du
title The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)
title_short The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)
title_full The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)
title_fullStr The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)
title_full_unstemmed The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994)
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