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    Series series Literary Cultures of the Global South
    This book discovers everyday forms of conviviality in fiction and life writing from Eastern and Southern Africa. It focuses on ordinary moments of recognition, of hospitality, of humour and kindness in everyday life to illuminate the significance of repertoires of repair in a world broken by relations of power. Through close readings of specific capacities of living with difference, the book ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah

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    This edited volume provides a wide- ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize- winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It addresses a gap in Gurnah scholarship by including chapters which discuss his earlier works that have not received the scholarly attention they deserve.Drawing on a range of critical lenses including postcolonial theory, Indian Ocean studies, psychoanalytic theory, ... Read more

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  • In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa

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