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TY - CHAP
T1 - Voyages Out and In
T2 - Two (British) Arab Muslim Women’s Bildungsromane
AU - Moore, Lindsey
PY - 2012/9/10
Y1 - 2012/9/10
N2 - This chapter examines two novels concerned with the experience of Arab Muslim women in national contexts of origin and in migrant situations in Britain, exploring ways in which female protagonists define themselves in relation to national and supra-national communities. The two texts are Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun (1992) and Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005). Although both female authors and their main characters identify as Arab and Muslim, the analysis will show that the relative emphasis on these categories varies significantly. Indeed, in bringing together two ‘pathfinder’ Bildungsromane whose publication dates span thirteen years, I signal a wider turn from Arab to Muslim affiliation. The chapter also assesses, with attention to informing contexts and formal textual qualities, to what extent these novels reflect feminist perspectives.1.
AB - This chapter examines two novels concerned with the experience of Arab Muslim women in national contexts of origin and in migrant situations in Britain, exploring ways in which female protagonists define themselves in relation to national and supra-national communities. The two texts are Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun (1992) and Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005). Although both female authors and their main characters identify as Arab and Muslim, the analysis will show that the relative emphasis on these categories varies significantly. Indeed, in bringing together two ‘pathfinder’ Bildungsromane whose publication dates span thirteen years, I signal a wider turn from Arab to Muslim affiliation. The chapter also assesses, with attention to informing contexts and formal textual qualities, to what extent these novels reflect feminist perspectives.1.
U2 - 10.4324/9780203129623
DO - 10.4324/9780203129623
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85123145540
SN - 9780415896771
SN - 9781138851580
SP - 68
EP - 84
BT - Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
A2 - Ahmed, Rehana
A2 - Morey, Peter
A2 - Yaqin, Amina
PB - Routledge
ER -