Postcolonial Literatures and Arts 4.1
Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Reappraisal
Table des matières
- Cédric Courtois and Mélanie Joseph-Vilain : Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Reappraisal. Introduction
- Delphine Froment : Contextualising Paradise: East Africa on the Brink of the Twentieth Century
- Nina Berman and Rachel Muchira : Writing-back at the German and Kiswahili Archive: Hidden Transcripts and Critical Fabulations in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels Paradise and Afterlives
- Kerry-Jane Wallart : Slavery and Extractivism: Reading Paradise through the Prism of Decolonial Ecology
- Élodie Raimbault : Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise
- Jaine Chemmachery : Time cheats all of us like that:” Time as Writing Matter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (2004)
- Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot : The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise
- Mélanie Joseph-Vilain : Storytelling and Performance: Interpreting Identities in Paradise (1994)
- Vanessa Guignery : “Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
- Cédric Courtois : “Yusuf sighed heavily, shamed by his failure and dishonour:” Poetics and Politics of Shame in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994) and Theft (2025)
- Nathalie Carré : “Kurudi(sha) nyumbani:” Reflections on the Swahili Translation of Paradise
- Ida Hadjivayanis : “Why do we have so many uncles?”: Linguistic Transference and Translationality in Gurnah’s Peponi and Dhulma
- Christine Lorre : Bodies in Contact: Corporeality, Mobility, and Change in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994)
Varia
- J. Coplen Rose : Humour and Healing in Lara Foot Newton’s Reach
- Morgane Flahault : Self-Translating Gender, Sexuality and Race in Rosario Ferré’s “De tu Lado al Paraíso”
Interviews
- “I like to fill gaps,” an interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga” – Tsitsi Dangarembga interviewed by Raphaël Thierry
- Cultural Crossroads, Transnational Narratives, and the Poetics of Displacement: In Conversation with Eman Quotah – Eman Quotah interviewed by Ishak Berrebbah
Reviews
- Maëline Le Lay : Simon Gikandi, and R. N. Sandberg, eds. Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora. London: Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, 2023.
- Neela Cathelain : Françoise Vergès. Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2024.





