Memories, Dreams and Reflections

Aboulela, Leila; Benítez, Luis Regueira; Brown, Stewart J.; Bryce, Jane; Chikwava, Brian; Dabydeen, David; Narain, Denise deCaires; Fraser, Robert; Haynes, John; James, Louis; Kay, Jackie; Ledent, Bénédicte; Mason-John, Valerie; Naidoo, Beverley; Namjoshi, Suniti; Niven, Alastair; O’Callaghan, Evelyn; Senior, Olive; Sivan, Miriam; Soobrayen, Saradha; Unigwe, Chika; Uzoatu, Uzor Maxim; Ngugi, Mukoma Wa

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“…After studying in London, she eventually moved to Aberdeen, where she lived for many years. (Aboulela et al, 2010: 80). More recently, Aboulela has also lived in Indonesia, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, then Doha, Qatar, before moving back to Aberdeen in 2012 (Butterworth 2019: 169).…”

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“…4 In Lyrics Alley, religion only functions to underscore the ways in which Sudan has resisted the negative consequences of modernization. Ustaz Badr, who is Nur's literature and theological tutor, notes that "in Sudan, the barriers between the human and spirit worlds [are] thin, or that there [are] cracks and transparencies through which that other, unknown world could, at times, be sensed" (Aboulela, 2010(Aboulela, /2012. 5 Islam therefore serves as a paradigm through which the reader comes to appreciate the magic of Sudan -its connections to tradition and an older world.…”

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Building oppressive proxies: Sudanese and Egyptian domestic place and the production of patriarchal femininity in Leila Aboulela’s Lyrics Alley

Steenkamp

2020

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Leila Aboulela’s Lyrics Alley disrupts the trend in much feminist literature to present women’s places and spaces as sites of revolt against patriarchal oppression. In the small places of the Abuzeid home, Lyrics Alley reveals that women’s places are not inherently emancipatory, and patriarchal behaviour is not exclusively observed in men. Through the socio-spatial dispersal of patriarchal power, homosocial domestic places, where women interact with other women, can produce femininities that oppress other women by actively advancing patriarchal concerns. In this essay, Lyrics Alley provides a cartography for socio-geographical enquiry to establish how space and place construct patriarchal women. My analyses of these literary spaces reveal the mechanisms by which patriarchal women are spatially produced, and may use space to oppress other women.

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confidence: 99%