Pyeaam Abbasi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pyeaam Abbasi plays a role.
Articles
2023 “May the path never close”: A Deleuze-Guattarian reading of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah English Text Construction 16:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
Resistance to postcolonial oppressive ideologies assumes significance within Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987), portraying predicaments of a post-independence fictional African state of Kangan. Drawing on the Deleuze-Guattarian “ontology of becoming”, “rhizome”, “nomad thought”,… read more
2020 Dr(e)amatic encounters: The role of embedded narratives in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians English Text Construction 13:1, pp. 22–45 | Article
This article traces the textual elaboration and expansion of dreams as embedded narratives in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). Drawing on Marie-Laure Ryan’s modal system, the objective is to lay bare Coetzee’s staging of the possibility of encountering the other in the world of… read more
2019 Closure in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: A cognitive approach English Text Construction 12:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
This article explores the politics of J. M. Coetzee’s writing style in Disgrace. Drawing on Marie-Laure Ryan’s theory of textual universe and Barbara Dancygier’s narrative space construction strategies, we argue that Coetzee’s narrative is set up to expose David Lurie’s deliberately distorted… read more