Liquid Objects

Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Material Ecologies of Water
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-37579-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 108 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Reihe: Transdisciplinary Souths

Liquid Objects: Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Material Ecologies of Water offers a consistent reading of Gurnah’s work as oceanic constellations that stretch our dualistic assumptions of human and nonhuman matter. The book attempts to make better sense of these worlds in motion by closely observing the flow of four objects—namely map, breath, border and bone. Each object moves us on a journey into Gurnah’s Indian Ocean worlds and attunes us to the multiplicity of flows that exceed the familiar framework of interpreting them. Keyvan Allahyari shows that Gurnah’s capacious imagination resists our habitual handles of inquiry, and that reading itself always migrates across currents of matter and memory that we can only hope to partially grasp. This book will be an enriching reading for scholars and researchers of literature, cultural studies, Indian Ocean studies and African studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allahyari, Keyvan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Liquescent: Mattering with

Chapter One: Map

Chapter Two: Breath

Chapter Three: Border

Chapter Four: Bone

Blocked: The Lingering of the Un-dissolvable

Über Autor(innen)

Keyvan Allahyari (PhD, Melbourne 2019) is Junior Professor and Chair of Anglophone Literatures in a Global Environment at the University of Jena. He is the author of Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist (Palgrave, 2023) and an extensive range of academic articles, book chapters and critical commentaries on contemporary literary and cultural studies.