Family Slavery And Displacement In Paradise By Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Family Slavery And Displacement In Paradise By Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2023-11-20
Family Slavery And Displacement In Paradise By Abdulrazak Gurnah written by and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-20 with History categories.
Essay from the year 2022 in the subject African Studies - Literature, grade: 13, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), course: An Introducton to African Diasporic Literature in English: Mobility, Migration, and Cultural Shifts, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the themes of patterns of travel and mobility, the role of religion and Islam and the role of narrator/family/slavery and his displacement. The author Abdulrazak Gurnah is a member of the Muslim-Arab minority in Zanzibar with Swahili as his mother tongue. He arrived in Great Britain as a refugee in 1968. The book "Paradise" got published in 1994 has 447 pages and is narrated from an authorial perspective. This novel unfolds the tale of Yusuf. Left by his father to settle debts, Yusuf becomes the ward of the Arab merchant Aziz. The narrative follows their trading expeditions, offering insights into the interior of Africa during the era of German colonialism in East Africa. Beyond the theme of travel, the novel delves into crucial subjects such as identity development, slavery, and the concept of "displacement." Each topic has been written in the form of an essay and works closely with the novel "Paradise". Excerpt from an essay that deals with the topic of "Patterns of Travel and Mobility in Paradise": This essay seeks to investigate the patterns of travel and mobility in Paradise by alluding to a number of examples from Paradise. It is absolutely crucial to address this topic since it is omnipresent in the novel. There are, in fact, a number of patterns of travel and mobility evident in the novel. Paradise is wrapped in several different narrative models that imply movement. For the most part, the trade and movement have a strong bond, as the merchants can move freely with their caravans and visit the most remote places in the interior. Furthermore, an internal journey, or rather a metaphorical travel, takes place, namely the personal journey of Yusuf. He grows up during his travels from a child to a man. Another pattern of travel and mobility is the condition of the diaspora because many people have been displaced. For example, there are Europeans, Arabs, or even Indians who came to Africa for specific reasons, such as economic or political reasons. In addition, many characters represent travelers, slaves, slave traders, explorers, or emigrants whose borders are constantly shifting or even disappearing. Besides, many of the characters are caught between clashing cultures and territories. Yusuf's identity is also altered when he is torn from his parents and home and made a slave.
Rejection Of Victimhood In Literature
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Author : Sean James Bosman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-30
Rejection Of Victimhood In Literature written by Sean James Bosman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines how selected works of fiction advocate for just memories and promote identities that accept ethical agency and that exercise power and control over their own lives and destinies, no matter how limited such control may be.
The Fiction Of Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Author : Mohineet Kaur Boparai
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-20
The Fiction Of Abdulrazak Gurnah written by Mohineet Kaur Boparai and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with History categories.
This book is an insightful work on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction, and explores the different valences of oppression and agency, subjectivity, memory, race, gender, place, solidarity, class, and crime. It is an expansive study of Gurnah’s work and lays down foundations for a varied study on the author. It approaches Gurnah’s fiction from multiple angles, and takes it beyond the postcolonial perspective into varied and vast arenas of literary theory.
Admiring Silence
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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-15
Admiring Silence written by Abdulrazak Gurnah and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Fiction categories.
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature 'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' Financial Times 'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home' Independent on Sunday _____________________ He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that. Things do not happen quite as he imagined – the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.
Paradise
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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Paradise written by Abdulrazak Gurnah and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with Fiction categories.
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature A BBC RADIO 4 Book at Bedtime SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE _______________________ 'A poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown' Independent on Sunday 'Gurnah evokes his world in poetic prose which is pure and lucid - a small paradise in itself ... The pleasures, sadnesses and losses in all the shining facets of this book are lingering and exquisite' Guardian 'An obliterated world is enthrallingly retrieved' Sunday Times _______________________ Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his 'uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.
Afterlives
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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-17
Afterlives written by Abdulrazak Gurnah and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with Fiction categories.
BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian 'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year _______________ While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security – and the love of the beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away... _______________ 'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers ... He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee 'In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, if not fully whole' Maaza Mengiste 'Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times
The Stone Virgins
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Author : Yvonne Vera
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2004-02-14
The Stone Virgins written by Yvonne Vera and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-14 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction An uncompromising novel by one of Africa's premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose In 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-fought-for independence from Britain. Less than two years thereafter when Mugabe rose to power in the new Zimbabwe, it signaled the begining of brutal civil unrest that would last nearly a half decade more. With The Stone Virgins Yvonne Vera examines the dissident movement from the perspective of two sisters living in a small township outside of Bulawayo. In a portrait painted in successive impressions of life before and after the liberation, Vera explores the quest for dignity and a centered existence against a backdrop of unimaginable violence; the twin instincts of survival and love; the rival pulls of township and city life; and mankind's capacity for terror, beauty, and sacrifice. One sister will find a reason for hope. One will not make it through alive. Weaving historical fact within a story of grand passions and striking endurance, Vera has gifted us with a powerful and provocative testament to the resilience of the Zimbabwean people.
Desertion
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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-09-05
Desertion written by Abdulrazak Gurnah and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Fiction categories.
A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali’s sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks, with consequences that will ripple decades into the future, when another clandestine affair bursts into flame, with equally unforeseen and dramatic consequences. In this devastating and ingeniously spun tale, the Nobelist Abdulrazak Gurnah brilliantly dramatizes the personal and political legacies of colonialism.
Structure Of Slavery In Indian Ocean Africa And Asia
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Author : Gwyn Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-11-23
Structure Of Slavery In Indian Ocean Africa And Asia written by Gwyn Campbell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-23 with Political Science categories.
The abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and draws comparisons between similar developments in the Atlantic system. Case studies include South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Benadir Coast, Arabia, the Persian Gulf and India. This volume marks an important new development in the study of slavery and its abolition in general, and an original approach to the history of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Asia regions.
Paradise Discourse Imperialism And Globalization
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Author : Sharae Deckard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-12-04
Paradise Discourse Imperialism And Globalization written by Sharae Deckard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this volume, Deckard analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from Mexico, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.