Dottie_(novel)

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Dottie (novel)

1990 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Dottie is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah published by Jonathan Cape in 1990.[1] It is Gurnah's third novel.[2]

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Unlike most of Gurnah's protagonists, the eponymous Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour, who is born in Leeds, England,[3] is not from Zanzibar.[4][3] Dottie grows up poor,[5] in a family of "ambiguously mixed origins".[3] The novel describes her struggle to serve as a parent for her brother and sister after her mother dies.[6]

Dottie alludes to the works of Charles Dickens, particularly David Copperfield and Great Expectations.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    Palmisano, Joseph M., ed. (2007). "Gurnah, Abdulrazak S.". Contemporary Authors. Vol. 153. Gale. pp. 134–136. ISBN 978-1-4144-1017-3. ISSN 0275-7176. OCLC 507351992.
  2. [2]
    Lewis 2013, p. 42.
  3. [3]
    Bungaro 2005, p. 26.
  4. [4]
    Lewis 2013, pp. 41–43.
  5. [5]
    Ajulu-Okungu 2014, p. 136.
  6. [6]
    Ajulu-Okungu 2014, p. 133.
  7. [7]
    Lewis 2013, pp. 42–43, 45.

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