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...

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Published in:	English Studies in Africa Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 78 - 91
Main Author:	Samuelson, Meg
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May2013
Subjects:	Cartography By the Sea (Book) Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- Arabian Nights (Tale) Allusions Indian Ocean
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost