Identity Reconstruction in the Context of Cultural Hybridity: Abdulrazak Gurnah's Writing from Memory

doi:10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2023.05.016

Abstract

Abstract: Writing from memory threads through Tanzanian Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah's career as a writer. His early life in Zanzibar and diasporic experience in England haunts him and makes him suffer from trauma memories and identity crisis. Breaking through national， racial， and cultural boundaries， Gurnah blend in his works the memories at the personal， historical， and social levels. His fictions not only reveal the sophisticated cultural topography of eastern Africa which witnesses the cross-cutting of Swahili and Muslim cultures， but also challenge the stereotyped images of Africa forged by the colonialism discourse.

Key words: writing from memory; Abdulrazak Gurnah; diaspora; post-colonialism; Swahili literature

CLC Number:

I437.074

WANG Ji. Identity Reconstruction in the Context of Cultural Hybridity: Abdulrazak Gurnah's Writing from Memory[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science), 2023, 25(5): 144-150.

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