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Sudan Impact: The Scottish Contribution to Empire Sudan Impact: The Scottish Contribution to Empire
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Migration across the Generations Migration across the Generations
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Beyond our Ken? ‘Barbie in the Mosque’ Beyond our Ken? ‘Barbie in the Mosque’
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Romancing the Sudan: The Translator as a Muslim Jane Eyre Romancing the Sudan: The Translator as a Muslim Jane Eyre
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Saving Private Rae: Conversion as Rescue Narrative Saving Private Rae: Conversion as Rescue Narrative
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Conclusion: From Darien to Darfur Conclusion: From Darien to Darfur
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14 Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela's The Translator
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Published:June 2011
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Abstract
This chapter describes two novels by Leila Aboulela and Tayeb Salih detailing the colonial encounters of Sudanese students in England and Scotland. Salih's Season of Migration to the North offers a hard-eyed look at native culture typical of that period of self-examination that came on the cusp or in the wake of independence. In The Translator, Sammar reflects on Western individualism in the specific case of Scotland as being bound up with the weather. Islam in this novel is a world away from Western discourse on women as its victims. In Salih and Aboulela, Sudan has produced two of the most distinctive writers of the modern period, and in The Translator a particularly forceful reminder of Scotland's problematic place within the postcolonial paradigm, as both complicit cornerstone of the British imperial state and enlightened periphery with its own history of resistance and opposition.
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