Leila Aboulela

Writing as Refuge
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-30799-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge African Writers

Leila Aboulela rose to prominence for her novels, short stories and radio plays that are complex explorations of ordinary Muslim women attempting to gain autonomy in a Western world. This book weaves together interviews, literary criticism, and explores key life events to assemble a vivid portrait of a unique Muslim woman writer from Sudan.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shringarpure, Bhakti

Fachgebiete

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

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.