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A Language Spoken with Words: Decolonization, Knowledge Production and Environmental Injustice in the Work of Abdulrazak Gurnah
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The paper analyses the relationship between decolonization, climate change, and environmental injustice as
represented in the writings of Abdulrazak Gurnah. Gurnah’s work is considered an example of decolonial
literature. Decolonial literature has focused on issues beyond the nature of the colonial subject, highlighting
the relationship between the capitalist world economy and the formation of modern decolonial subjectivities,
namely the exposure of those subjectivities to environmental injustice. The paper intends to answer the
following research question: how does Abdulrazak Gurnah address the articulation between decolonization,
climate change, and environmental injustice? The paper argues that Gurnah addresses such an articulation by
discussing knowledge production about the colonial subject and the postcolonial self and instituting an
association between environmental/climate precarity and biopolitical precarity. Building from two of Gurnah’s
novels—By the Sea and Afterlives – the paper debates how Gurnah’s characters are afflicted by the racialization
of social and economic relations and biopolitical and climate precarity. Questioning knowledge production
about the colonial subject and the postcolonial self is significant because it underscores the importance of
transforming how knowledge about climate change is produced. Instituting an association between
environmental/climate precarity and biopolitical precarity permits debating how colonial and capitalist power
structures are responsible for disseminating environmental injustice, foregrounding the epistemic importance
of indigenous climate change studies. The work of Gurnah is critically analyzed, bearing in mind the need to
discuss the relevance of addressing climate change and environmental injustice from the perspective of global
south literature.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah; Environmental Injustice; Climate Change; Decolonialism; Africa.
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Ferreira, M.J. (2023). A language spoken with words: decolonization, knowledge production and environmental injustice in the work of Abdulrazak Gurnah. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 11(21), 130-143.