Writing Place

Gurnah recounts his beginnings as a writer and talks about the influence of location to his writing. He left his home country of Zanzibar to go to England and it was there that he started writing seriously. He says that being away provides distance and perspective, a degree of amplitude and liberati...

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Veröffentlicht in:	World literature today 2004-05, Vol.78 (2), p.26-28
1. Verfasser:	Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Authors British English Creativity Essays Gurnah, Abdulrazak Libraries Literary criticism Narratives Nostalgia Novels Oral literature Penmanship Poetry Postcolonial literature Seventeenth century literature Space World literature Writers Writing Writing instruction
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Zusammenfassung:	Gurnah recounts his beginnings as a writer and talks about the influence of location to his writing. He left his home country of Zanzibar to go to England and it was there that he started writing seriously. He says that being away provides distance and perspective, a degree of amplitude and liberation, and intensifies recollection, which is the writer's hinterland.
ISSN:	0196-3570 1945-8134
DOI:	10.2307/40158389