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The Translator
- published 1999
- Leila Aboulela
- first novel
- Caine Prize for African Writing
- Caine Prize for African Writing
- first novel
- setting
- Khartoum
- Aberdeen
- Khartoum
- characters
- Sammar
- "a Muslim Jane Eyre"
Annotations:
- quote Aboulela, http://www.leila-aboulela.com/books/the-translator/inspiration/
- "I visualized Sammar as the
ordinary girl- next-door placed
in a romantic predicament"
Annotations:
- quote Aboulela, http://www.leila-aboulela.com/books/the-translator/inspiration/
- widow
- Arabic translator at the
University of Aberdeen
- very religious
- very religious
- car accident
- Arabic translator at the
University of Aberdeen
- "a Muslim Jane Eyre"
- Rae
- Islamic scholar
- Islamic scholar
- Sammar
- further reading
- masculinity in
The Translator
Annotations:
- http://www.jmmsweb.org/issues/volume1/number2/pp170-182
- Orientalism - Edward Said
- Translating silence,
transmitting faith: Personal
and cultural understanding in
Leila Aboulela's The
Translator
Annotations:
- http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1390295075_Alaa.pdf
- masculinity in
The Translator
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