Naipaulian Paradise

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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Oct 9, 2021, 10:48:35 PM10/9/21
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Chambi,

Have you looked at “Paradise?”
I thought I was reading Naipaul.
Good grief.  X?!?’&$”
Read pages 34, 52, 59, 60, 123, 130, 131 etc

I shall move on to “Gravel Heart”and “Last Gift”
to see if there is a change in the Naipaulian
paradigm. I can think of a thesis title -
comparing the two with reference to Paradise.

Thank you IB for sending me the texts.


Professor Gloria Emeagwali 
Gurnah, Abdulrazak - Paradise (New Press, 1994) 2.pdf

Chambi Chachage

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Oct 10, 2021, 9:08:29 AM10/10/21
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Gloria, 

I think you should have started with the more autobiographical ones, such as the one I have attached here - ‘Memory of Departure’; and, as a historian, the other one attached - a historical novel - would probably interest you: ‘Afterlives’.

As for the Naipulian paradigm in the one you chose to start with, Fawzia Mustafa addressed it here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24851983.

Gurnah is African, Swahili or Zanzibari if not Tanzanian to even be more precise his Arab ancestry notwithstanding; his story is crucial for anyone who wants to understand the racial and class dynamics underpinning the Zanzibar Revolution, its aftermath and enduring legacy.

Cf.


Regards,

Chambi

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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Oct 10, 2021, 10:21:21 AM10/10/21
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Ok. So “Paradise” is somewhat off the record?

I am happy to know that the rest of his work
deviates from this. Now I am going to
have a look at the historical novel.



GE


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Harrow, Kenneth

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Oct 10, 2021, 4:51:54 PM10/10/21
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here is a fine article on gurnah by bhakti shringarpure, defining him as a postcolonial author.
Nobel Prize Why Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature is important The 73-year-old writer represents both a post-colonial African sensibility and an Islamic interiority.


kenneth harrow

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michigan state university

517 803-8839

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