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Exile, knowledge, and self: Home in Peter Abrahams's work
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Exile, knowledge, and self: Home in Peter Abrahams's work

The South Atlantic quarterly, Vol.98(1/2), pp.163-175
01/01/1999

Abstract

Abrahams, Peter (1919-2017) Black literature Exile Knowledge Literary criticism Metaphor Novels Self concept Subjectivity Writers
Chiwengo examines issues of knowledge, identity, exile, and immigration in various works by South African novelist Peter Abrahams. Abrahams' literary oeuvre, centered on the teleological becoming of Black subjectivity, thus projects both his physical and metaphorical displacement and his perpetual search and desire for home.

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