Lynda Ng

'A sideshow to the great tragedies in Europe’: colonialism and Holocaust in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 2023 novel Afterlives traces a direct line between the history of German colonialism in East Africa and the Holocaust. The act of drawing such connections has been subject to fierce debate in Germany in the Historikerstreit 2.0. Gurnah’s work calls attention t...