In the week in which Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize, his novel “Paradise Lost” is published again. And sensitively disturbs the black and white thinking about colonialism.
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Felix Stephan
One of the most persistent internal contradictions in contemporary literature concerns the vast area of post-colonial narration of American provenance: On the one hand, this literature has set out to finally and fundamentally overcome Eurocentrism; on the other hand, no book is quoted as often as the Bible. Ta-Nehisi Coates repeatedly varied the motif of the messianic redeemer in his novels, comics and films, James Baldwin’s novel “Go tell it on the mountain” is a brilliant variation on the pious southern gospel, and also the poems of Amanda Gorman Their height of fall is preferably based on references to the Bible.