“Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise

“Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise

In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise, characters are often shown laughing, even when facing ordeals and hardships. Drawing from the concept of utani in East Africa (usually translated as “joking relationship”) and from Western theories of laughter, this paper examines the various functions of laughter in...

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1. autor: Guignery, Vanessa
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Wydane: Postcolonial Literatures and Arts 2026
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
Paradise
laughter
utani
jokes
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Paradise
laughter
utani
jokes
spellingShingle Abdulrazak Gurnah
Paradise
laughter
utani
jokes
Guignery, Vanessa
“Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
description In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise, characters are often shown laughing, even when facing ordeals and hardships. Drawing from the concept of utani in East Africa (usually translated as “joking relationship”) and from Western theories of laughter, this paper examines the various functions of laughter in the novel to try and determine whether it is used as a means of excluding the more vulnerable or as a tool of cohesion within a multiethnic, multilingual and transcultural society.
author Guignery, Vanessa
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title “Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
title_short “Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
title_full “Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
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