Banishment into Wilderness: The Trauma of Dispossession and Dislocation in "Gravel Heart"

This paper explores Abdulrazak Gurnah’s reimagination of the fate of dispossessed and displaced subjects after wars in post-colonial polities. Its point of departure is that most of Gurnah’s novels feature a migrant who is dispossessed and displaced after the Zanzibar revolution of 1964. Gravel Hea...

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Main Author: Jacinta Matheka
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2024-12-01
Series:RiCognizioni
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Online Access:https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/10735
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