The haunting influence of Jean Rhys on Leila Aboulela
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Thomas (0000-0002-6628-3328, La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 156-171 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Modernist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-2921 • E-ISSN: 2469-293X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24692921.2023.2190209 |
| OpenAlex | W4328119037 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
Leila Aboulela, a devout Islamic writer, first read Jean Rhys’s fiction after she arrived in Scotland from Sudan in 1990 in her mid-twenties. She acknowledges that her writing is haunted by Rhys’s fiction, especially Voyage in the Dark. The influence of Voyage in the Dark (1934) is most marked in Aboulela’s second novel Minaret (2005). There her finely nuanced translations of the narrative logic of and motifs from Voyage in the Dark across historical, cultural and religious contexts point to shared concerns with the affective reach of female migration and the negotiation of vulnerability, faith and movement across and around racialized and gendered thresholds of propriety
Art · Faith · Islam · Literature · Narrative · Theology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Travel Writing and Literature
Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels
British Muslim Fictions
Concubines and Courtesans
Moving Away from Accuracy
Rethinking the Archive of Enslavement
Leila Aboulela, Religion, and the Challenge of the Novel
Disorientation
Jean Rhys’s Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics
Islamic Individualism and the Logic of the Narrative
Jean Rhys Writing White Creole Childhoods
Halal fiction” and the limits of postsecularism
Living between languages
Enlightening religion
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |