“Yusuf sighed heavily, shamed by his failure and dishonour:” Poetics and Politics of Shame in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994) and Theft (2025)
This article examines shame as an embodied, relational, and political force in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise and Theft. Drawing on phenomenology and postcolonial theory, it explores how shame structures subordination, visibility, and self-recognition, and argues that Gurnah’s fiction reconfigures sha...
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2026
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | This article examines shame as an embodied, relational, and political force in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise and Theft. Drawing on phenomenology and postcolonial theory, it explores how shame structures subordination, visibility, and self-recognition, and argues that Gurnah’s fiction reconfigures shame decolonially. |
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