Narrative Cartographies, ‘Beautiful Things’ and Littoral States in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea.
Much scholarship onBy the Seahas focused on its representation of south-north migration and asylum. This article attends instead to the narrative cartography by which it maps Zanzibar and the Swahili coast into the Indian Ocean world while, in turn, opening up into a world ocean of stories. Central...
| Publicado en: | English Studies in Africa Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 78 - 91 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2013
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