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