Hanby House
While such approaches have been essential for problematizing hegemonic mobilizations of “residence”, there may be also a danger in reading motion as constitutive of the (post)trendy world. In particular, such frameworks often overlook the experiences of those who are forcibly displaced. Critical funding in tropes of migrancy could unwittingly recycle imperialist assumptions by producing imagined areas of alterity that serve to liberate the centred, “at house” topic on the expense of historicized experiences of homelessness. Abdulrazak Gurnahs 2001 novel By the Sea represents one such historicized expertise, that of its protagonist, asylum seeker Saleh Omar. This article argues that, through its narrative funding in homes and household objects and in the importance of narrative for creating a way of house for its migrant protagonist, Gurnahs novel poses a problem to an aesthetic valorization of displacement.
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