Unveiling homes within silence: admiring silence by Abdulrazek Gurnah 1996
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2023
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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The present research highlights the dimensions of silence as a human experience, taking AbdulrazekGurnah's Admiring Silence (1996) as a study sample. It examines not only the compulsory silence in the diasporic atmospheres but also the sites of admired and chosen silences. This is why, this study unveils the psychological and cultural silences within the context of the novel, for the aim of manifesting how silence transforms into home, in an act of constructing an inner space of desires, created by the silent behaviour of the protagonist. This study combines Stuart Sim's categorization of silence with Elsa Ronningstam cultural, psychological and psychoanalytic theorization of silence. Overall, the choice of the theoretical insights serves to prove that silences in Admiring Silence are but a space of home created by the nameless narrator of the novel to escape external feelings of diasporicunbelongingness, and to demonstrate how admiring the silence becomes home.
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Home; Diaspora; Silence