Abdulrazak Gurnah
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdulrazak |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurnah |
| SIGNATURE | GURNAH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing and its Hinterland
This lecture was presented on January 9, 2023 at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).The lecture was transcribed by Arifa Ghani Rahman, Executive Editor, Crossings. The lecture may beviewed at https://www.facebook.com/ULABian/videos/1896589530694224
Learning to Read
The Urge to Nowhere
This essay tackles an important subject – cosmopolitanism – and relates this to travel and provincialism in Wicomb's fiction, drawing on Fanon, Bhabha and Gilroy, and discussing three of Wicomb's major works. It draws a link between place and memory, and how in Wicomb's work the latter is obscured by shame. It detects a productive tension in Wicomb's writing between the value of travel and the value of rootedness in one place, and proposes its re…
Mid Morning Moon
I first heard about the map from one of my teachers. It was not the kind of information he was supposed to be giving us, but I think he was bored with what he had to do and sometimes drifted away to unexpected topics. He was not our proper teacher, although he was a teacher in a primary school in the town and had a reputation for being learned. His name was Maalim Hassan Abdalla. He had recently moved next door to us and lived in the downstairs r…
Escort
Fiction reviews
Chinua Achebe. by C L Innes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. 199pp. £25.00hb Unequal struggle Voices Made Night. by Mia Conto Translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw, London: Heinemann. 1990. 115pp. £4.95pb Write—whatever the cost In Their Own Voices: African Women writers talk. edited by Adeola James, London: James Currey; and Heinemann. 1990. 154pp. £7.95pb
Literary reviews
Taking fiction beyond the text Matigari Ngugi wa Thiong'o Translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro Oxford: Heinemann International. 1989. 175pp. £10.95hb The mystery of identity Solitaire Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Gareth Stanton and Nick Hindley London: Quartet. 1988. 111pp. £9.95hb The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan London: Quartet. 1988. 163pp. £11.95hb African conditions The A…
Literary Reviews
Tyranny and redemption. Anthills of the Savannah. Chinua Achebe. London: William Heinemann. 1987. 233pp. £10.95hb Suffering with stoicism: Kenyan histories. Coming to Birth. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. London: Virago Press. 1986. 150pp. £3.95pb The Present Moment. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. London: Heinemann. 1987. 155pp. £10.95hb The politics of the soul. Search Sweet Country. B Kojo Laing. London: Picador. 1987. 318pp. £3.95pb Images of Istanbul. Th…
The Urge to Nowhere
This essay tackles an important subject – cosmopolitanism – and relates this to travel and provincialism in Wicomb's fiction, drawing on Fanon, Bhabha and Gilroy, and discussing three of Wicomb's major works. It draws a link between place and memory, and how in Wicomb's work the latter is obscured by shame. It detects a productive tension in Wicomb's writing between the value of travel and the value of rootedness in one place, and proposes its re…
Mid Morning Moon
I first heard about the map from one of my teachers. It was not the kind of information he was supposed to be giving us, but I think he was bored with what he had to do and sometimes drifted away to unexpected topics. He was not our proper teacher, although he was a teacher in a primary school in the town and had a reputation for being learned. His name was Maalim Hassan Abdalla. He had recently moved next door to us and lived in the downstairs r…
Literary reviews
Taking fiction beyond the text Matigari Ngugi wa Thiong'o Translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro Oxford: Heinemann International. 1989. 175pp. £10.95hb The mystery of identity Solitaire Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Gareth Stanton and Nick Hindley London: Quartet. 1988. 111pp. £9.95hb The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan London: Quartet. 1988. 163pp. £11.95hb African conditions The A…
Literary Reviews
Tyranny and redemption. Anthills of the Savannah. Chinua Achebe. London: William Heinemann. 1987. 233pp. £10.95hb Suffering with stoicism: Kenyan histories. Coming to Birth. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. London: Virago Press. 1986. 150pp. £3.95pb The Present Moment. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. London: Heinemann. 1987. 155pp. £10.95hb The politics of the soul. Search Sweet Country. B Kojo Laing. London: Picador. 1987. 318pp. £3.95pb Images of Istanbul. Th…
Literary reviews
Taking fiction beyond the text Matigari Ngugi wa Thiong'o Translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro Oxford: Heinemann International. 1989. 175pp. £10.95hb The mystery of identity Solitaire Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Gareth Stanton and Nick Hindley London: Quartet. 1988. 111pp. £9.95hb The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan London: Quartet. 1988. 163pp. £11.95hb African conditions The A…
Fiction reviews
Chinua Achebe. by C L Innes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. 199pp. £25.00hb Unequal struggle Voices Made Night. by Mia Conto Translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw, London: Heinemann. 1990. 115pp. £4.95pb Write—whatever the cost In Their Own Voices: African Women writers talk. edited by Adeola James, London: James Currey; and Heinemann. 1990. 154pp. £7.95pb
Escort
The Urge to Nowhere
This essay tackles an important subject – cosmopolitanism – and relates this to travel and provincialism in Wicomb's fiction, drawing on Fanon, Bhabha and Gilroy, and discussing three of Wicomb's major works. It draws a link between place and memory, and how in Wicomb's work the latter is obscured by shame. It detects a productive tension in Wicomb's writing between the value of travel and the value of rootedness in one place, and proposes its re…
Mid Morning Moon
I first heard about the map from one of my teachers. It was not the kind of information he was supposed to be giving us, but I think he was bored with what he had to do and sometimes drifted away to unexpected topics. He was not our proper teacher, although he was a teacher in a primary school in the town and had a reputation for being learned. His name was Maalim Hassan Abdalla. He had recently moved next door to us and lived in the downstairs r…
Learning to Read
Writing and its Hinterland
This lecture was presented on January 9, 2023 at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).The lecture was transcribed by Arifa Ghani Rahman, Executive Editor, Crossings. The lecture may beviewed at https://www.facebook.com/ULABian/videos/1896589530694224
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