Visualization of"The Wide World"of Gurnah's Literary Creation:A Digital Humanities Study
From the perspective of literary maps in digital humanities,this study examines"the wide world"depicted in the 10 novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah,a British-Tanzanian author and Nobel Prize laureate,to reveal the reasons for his award through a combination of"distant reading"and"close reading".Using Python data processing software and QGIS geo-graphic information visualization software,10 literary maps were drawn,marking three types of places closely related to the protagonist's growth and identity:the real places,the imagined places,and the hearsay places.These maps visually present the complex geographical span and spatiotemporal relationships characteristic of Gurnah's novels.Through the intertextual reading of the maps and texts,this study deeply explores Gurnah's expression of his cosmopolitanism in literary creation and his writing techniques and style in dealing with complex issues across continents such as politics,history,culture,society,race,ethnicity,religion,etc.,from three aspects:the exploration of identity in real places,voicing for the Global South through the imagined places,and the construction of world knowledge through the hearsay places.
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