Article Dans Une Revue Postcolonial Literatures and Arts Année : 2026

Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise

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Gurnah’s Paradise details the materiality of trade and the circulation of goods and men in East Africa before WWI. Despite strict colonial frameworks, the relationship between humans and the non-human challenges anthropomorphic structures of interpretation. Gurnah’s poetics of materiality displaces the novel from colonial tropes, as it reterritorializes human modes of relation to the material world. This postcolonial interrogation of human supremacy over matter and bodies participates in an ethical revaluation of the individual’s place and identity.

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hal-05611949 , version 1 (05-05-2026)

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Elodie Raimbault. Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise. Postcolonial Literatures and Arts, 2026, 4 (1), http://journals.openedition.org/pla/5213. ⟨hal-05611949⟩

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