Leila Aboulela

Writing as Refuge
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-30798-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge African Writers

Leila Aboulela rose to prominence in the first decade of the 21st century for her novels, short stories, and radio plays that are anchored in a sensitive and complex exploration of ordinary Muslim women attempting to gain autonomy in a Western world that casts them as misfits. This biography explores Aboulela’s childhood and youth in Khartoum, her difficult migration to Scotland, and her unusual journey to becoming a writer. Shringarpure underscores the connections between Aboulela’s life and her writing, focusing on experiences that have been both an impetus and an inspiration—not only as topics for her fiction but also as forces that drew her toward finding her voice as a writer.

Aboulela is claimed by many literary universes; from Sudanese and Scottish literature to Muslim women’s literature, African literature, and Black British writing. This book weaves together interviews and literary criticism, exploring key life events to assemble a vivid portrait of a unique Muslim woman writer from Sudan.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shringarpure, Bhakti

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Leila Aboulela  Chapter 1: Settling Sudan: An Egyptian Story  Chapter 2: Mothers and Daughters: A Khartoum Girlhood  Chapter 3: Love and Faith, Faith and Love  Chapter 4: Sudan Lost: The Voyage Out  Chapter 5: Writing as Refuge  Chapter 6: Sudan Regained: A Homecoming

Über Autor(innen)

Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and editor based in Paris. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and co-author of India’s Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives (2024). She is the editor of the Decolonize That! book series and the anthologies Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (2016), Imagine Africa, Volume 3 (2017), Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018), and Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (2023). Shringarpure co-founded Warscapes magazine in 2011, which has since transitioned into the Radical Books Collective, an initiative that builds community and strengthens solidarities through conversations, events, and podcasts on culture and politics. She is a research associate at the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.