The redemptive spaces of storytelling in postcolonial literature.

• Main Author: Lim, Rebecca Sim Ming.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55389
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis uses Walter Benjamin’s “The Storyteller” as an impulse to examine the redemptive spaces of storytelling in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea, Preeta Samarasan’s Evening is the Whole Day and Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost. In particular, I look at these authors’ representations of the worki...