2024/12/20 by Zinato, Susanna
#"Something Old #Islam #Leila Aboulela #Religion and Transculturality #Religious Translatability/ Untranslatability #Something New" #Sufism
paper · doi:10.13136/2724-4202/1567
Sudanese-British Leila Aboulela places religious faith and Islam right at the centre of her fiction, thus posing a double challenge of Otherness to a largely secularized and largely Islamophobic Western audience. In its effort at culturally translating religious and cultural foreignness without domesticating it, her narrative enacts a powerfully transcultural aesthetic experience. Something Old, Something New is the sample text chosen to substantiate discussion