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Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah
| Professor | Director of Graduate Studies |
|---|---|
| Phone: 01227 827543 | Office: NC 17 |
| Email: a.s.gurnah@kent.ac.uk |
Interests
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar and is now best-known as a novelist. His fourth novel Paradise was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994. His latest novel is Desertion. His main academic interest is in postcolonial writing and in discourses associated with colonialism, especially as they relate to Africa, the Caribbean and India. He has edited two volumes of Essays on African Writing, has published articles on a number of contemporary postcolonial writers, including Soyinka, Naipaul and Rushdie. He has recently edited A Companion to Salman Rushdie (Cambridge University Press 2007).`
Research Supervision
He has supervised research projects on the writing of Salman Rushdie, G.V. Desani, V.S. Naipaul, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Conrad and Jamaica Kincaid.
Current research students:
- Stephanie Decouvelaere (Comparative Study of Maghrebian and Caribbean Migrant Writing)
- Jany Joseph (Writing the Caribbean Migration to Britain)
- Maria Ridda (The Postcolonial Metropolis)
Teaching
Postgraduate:
Selected Publications
Books:
Books:
Desertion
A Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie
Some Recent Chapters and Articles:
- `An Idea of the Past,` Moving World, Vol 2, No 2, 2002, pp 6-17
`1993 - Toni Morrison and the Nobel Prize for Literature,` The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century in English, Edited by Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006) pp. 262-272.
- `Margate`, Towards a Promised Land , Edited Louise Neri (New York: Steidl; London: Artangel, 2006)