Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah by Tina Steiner

Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah by Tina Steiner

This edited volume provides a wide- ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize- winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It addresses a gap in Gurnah scholarship by including chapters which discuss his earlier works that have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. Drawing on a range of critical lenses including postcolonial theory, Indian Ocean studies, psychoanalytic theory, migration studies and gender studies, this book provides illuminating commentary on his novels. Attentive to the geographical and historical reach of the narratives, the chapters engage with recurring thematic concerns of departures and arrivals; of complex family relationships; and of precarious cosmopolitan hospitality in situations of changing power relations from the old Indian Ocean monsoon trading system to colonial and postcolonial contexts. The volume concludes with an author interview. It will be of great interest to researchers in the fields of Literary and Cultural Studies, especially Postcolonial Literature, African Studies and Indian Ocean Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of English Studies in Africa.

Tina Steiner, author of Translated People, Translated Texts: Language and Migration in Contemporary African Literature (2009) and Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (2021), teaches in the English Department at Stellenbosch University. She co-edits the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

Maria Olaussen is Professor of English at the University of Gothenburg. She has published widely on African literature and postcolonial studies. She is the editor of Africa Writing Europe: Oppositions, Entanglements, Juxtapositions (2009).

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ISBN 13	9781032258393
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Titel	Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah
Autor	Tina Steiner
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Verlag	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-07-28
Seitenanzahl	170
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