Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise.
Gurnah’s Paradise details the materiality of trade and the circulation of goods and men in East Africa before WWI. Despite strict colonial frameworks, the relationship between humans and the non-human challenges anthropomorphic structures of interpretation. Gurnah’s poetics of materiality displaces...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:pla_5213 https://doi.org/10.4000/166bc urn:doi:10.4000/166bc en https://journals.openedition.org/pla/5213 2026-05-05T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/166bc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise. Postcolonial Literatures and Arts Société des Études Postcoloniales info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/3074-5136 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla Raimbault, Élodie Gurnah (Abdulrazak) intertextuality materiality the non-human agency. Gurnah’s Paradise details the materiality of trade and the circulation of goods and men in East Africa before WWI. Despite strict colonial frameworks, the relationship between humans and the non-human challenges anthropomorphic structures of interpretation. Gurnah’s poetics of materiality displaces the novel from colonial tropes, as it reterritorializes human modes of relation to the material world. This postcolonial interrogation of human supremacy over matter and bodies participates in an ethical revaluation of the individual’s place and identity. |
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Gurnah’s Paradise details the materiality of trade and the circulation of goods and men in East Africa before WWI. Despite strict colonial frameworks, the relationship between humans and the non-human challenges anthropomorphic structures of interpretation. Gurnah’s poetics of materiality displaces the novel from colonial tropes, as it reterritorializes human modes of relation to the material world. This postcolonial interrogation of human supremacy over matter and bodies participates in an ethical revaluation of the individual’s place and identity. |
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Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise. |
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Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise. |
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Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise. |
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Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise. |
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Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise. |
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