November 2017

Gender identities and the search for new spaces: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise

There is growing ambivalence in the concept of gender in our societies today principally because its definition has moved from biological to social, implying that gender categories are not simply limited to male corresponding to man and female corresponding to woman, as it was traditionally, but man can now pass for woman and vice versa depending on the individual. These new constructions have contributed to reshaping...

Author(s): Eleanor Anneh Dasi