Storytelling and Performance: Interpreting Identities in Paradise (1994)
This article focuses on the function of storytelling in Paradise, exploring performance and its entanglement with complex identities in the early twentieth-century East Africa where the novel is set. In Paradise, indeed, identities are staged, watched, and decoded, reflecting the shifting hierarchie...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2026
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | This article focuses on the function of storytelling in Paradise, exploring performance and its entanglement with complex identities in the early twentieth-century East Africa where the novel is set. In Paradise, indeed, identities are staged, watched, and decoded, reflecting the shifting hierarchies resulting from the instability of a fragmented society. I analyse the tensions between performing and watching, between actors and spectators (and activity and passivity) to outline the functions of performance and interpretation. |
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