"Nor was there any role for you": Unsettling canonical frames in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By The Sea (2001) and Gravel Heart (2017).
In this paper, I consider By the Sea (2001) and Gravel Heart (2017) as examples of how the Zanzibari-born British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah's fiction unsettles the disempowering frames that his refugee and marginalised migrant characters encounter as they attempt to find new homes. To understand how...
| Published in: | English in Africa Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 29 - 47 |
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Institute for the Study of English in Africa
Nov2021
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