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  2. 1. Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen

    Author : Erik Falk; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Michael Titlestad; Nahem Yousaf; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Abdulrazak Gurnah; Yvonne Vera; postcolonial literature; entanglement; movement; creative amnesia; Édouard Glissant; Achille Mbembe; David Dabydeen; subject; history; subject formation; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study is concerned with subject formation in the fiction of contemporary postcolonial authors Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen. In contextualised readings of a total of nine works – Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001), and Desertion (2005); Vera’s Without a Name (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), and The Stone Virgins (2002); Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993), Turner (1994), and A Harlot’s Progress (1999) – it explores thematic and formal aspects of the subject’s constitution in the texts. READ MORE