NOBEL-winning writer Abdulrazak Gurnah says removing offensive words from the likes of Agatha Christie is \u201cfutile\u201d, but says Britain did produce openly racist literature during the last century of its empire.<\/p>\n
The British-Tanzanian author won the 2021 Nobel Prize for books such as \u201cParadise\u201d and \u201cMemory of Departure\u201d exploring Europe\u2019s colonial legacy.\u00a0… NOBEL-winning writer Abdulrazak Gurnah says removing offensive words from the likes of Agatha Christie is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist.jpeg",1000,996,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist-300x300.jpeg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist-768x765.jpeg",640,638,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist.jpeg",640,637,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist.jpeg",1000,996,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist.jpeg",1000,996,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist.jpeg",1000,996,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/119465-nobel-winner-says-uk-imperial-literature-was-openly-racist-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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