Negotiating the veil and identity in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret

• Main Authors: Susan Taha Al-Karawi,, Ida Baizura Bahar,
• 格式: Article
• 语言: English
• 出版: Penerbit UKM 2014
• 在线阅读: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7777/1/5491-18829-1-PB.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7777/; http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/index

Leila Aboulela‟s novel, Minaret (2005), provides authentic and rich content to explore the Muslim Arab woman‟s struggle over creating a modern yet religiously traditional identity. The conceptual framework of Victor Turner‟s liminality and Homi Bhabha‟s hybridity and the third space are applied in o...