Maria Olaussen – författare

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, migration studies and gender studies, this book provides illuminating commentary on his novels. Attentive to the geographical and historical reach of the narratives, the chapters engage with recurring thematic concerns of departures and arrivals; of complex family relationships; and of precarious cosmopolitan hospitality in situations of changing power relations from the old Indian Ocean monsoon trading system to colonial and postcolonial contexts. The volume concludes with an author interview. It will be of great interest to researchers in the fields of Literary and Cultural Studies, especially Postcolonial Literature, African Studies and Indian Ocean Studies.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of English Studies in Africa.

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, migration studies and gender studies, this book provides illuminating commentary on his novels. Attentive to the geographical and historical reach of the narratives, the chapters engage with recurring thematic concerns of departures and arrivals; of complex family relationships; and of precarious cosmopolitan hospitality in situations of changing power relations from the old Indian Ocean monsoon trading system to colonial and postcolonial contexts. The volume concludes with an author interview. It will be of great interest to researchers in the fields of Literary and Cultural Studies, especially Postcolonial Literature, African Studies and Indian Ocean Studies.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of English Studies in Africa.

Den som sätter sig att läsa Resor i tid och rum får förbereda sig på hisnande färder över vidsträckta fält: från finstämda parisiska bilddikter till en monty pythonsk spänningsroman, från Fridegårds trälar till rollspelet Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, från den sömniga småstaden Nässjö till igbo-byar i östra Nigeria. Vi möter resande konst, barn och språk. Litteraturläsande som en egen resa, där läsfärdighet är den nödvändiga biljetten, behandlas från olika håll: i skolan, i samtalet, i läsarens inre. Vi får läsa om indianer och indier, perser och greker och mycket, mycket mer. Ett försök att fånga litteraturvetaren Margareta Peterssons många intresseområden indoengelsk roman, postkolonial litteratur, global litteraturhistorieskrivning samt litteraturdidaktisk forskning kan inte sluta på annat sätt än med en omfångsrik antologi, med trettio nyskrivna och intressanta artiklar författade av kolleger från lärosäten runt hela landet. Förhoppningen är att läsaren möts av en och annan oväntad koppling som sprider nytt ljus över det som för professor Petersson sedan länge varit känt.