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March 6, 2026Zeitschrift für Anglistik und AmerikanistikOpen Access

A Resounding Silence: Gurnah’s Afterlives and Multidirectional Memory

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Overview

Examines how Gurnah's novel connects traumatic histories in East Africa, suggesting new understandings of memory.

Key Points

  • To analyze how Gurnah’s novel Afterlives addresses the impact of colonialism and traumatic memories.
  • Literary analysis of Gurnah's Afterlives
  • Application of Michael Rothberg’s concept of multidirectional memory
  • Exploration of historical contexts from 1900 to the 1970s
  • Afterlives serves as a commemorative event that juxtaposes various traumatic memories.
  • The novel connects memories of World Wars, colonialism, slavery, and the Holocaust.
  • It challenges dominant Western narratives by highlighting the entanglements of these histories.

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Lukas Lammers (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69aa7066531e4c4a9ff5a268https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2025-2044
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