Seminar Explored Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Poetics of Displacement

On the 8th of January, the Center for African Studies held a seminar titled Borders of Belonging: ‘‘The Nobel Prize Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Poetics of Displacement’’, led by Houssine Dehbi, a second-year PhD student within the center.

The workshop brought together 100 PhD students, the seminar offered an interpretation of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s literary work that considers displacement not only as a recurring theme related to exile and diaspora, but also as a core aesthetic and epistemological framework shaping his writing.

Discussions focused on how Gurnah’s fiction depicts displacement as a key element of narrative construction, moving beyond thematic treatment to inform storytelling techniques and perspectives.

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Séminaire sur la poétique du déplacement dans l’œuvre d’Abdulrazak Gurnah | UM6P

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Le 8 janvier, le Center for African Studies a organisé un séminaire intitulé Borders of Belonging: « The Nobel Prize Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Poetics of Displacement », animé par Houssine Dehbi, doctorant en deuxième année au sein du centre.

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displacement, African literature, narrative poetics, exile, Nobel Prize