“Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise
In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise, characters are often shown laughing, even when facing ordeals and hardships. Drawing from the concept of utani in East Africa (usually translated as “joking relationship”) and from Western theories of laughter, this paper examines the various functions of laughter in...
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Société des Études Postcoloniales
2026
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| Online adgang: | https://doi.org/10.4000/1666x https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/1666x https://journals.openedition.org/pla/4568 |
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