The Translator

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A mindmap about Leila Aboulela's novel The Translator.
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The Translator
  1. published 1999
    1. Leila Aboulela
      1. first novel
        1. Caine Prize for African Writing
      2. setting
        1. Khartoum
          1. Aberdeen
          2. characters
            1. Sammar
              1. "a Muslim Jane Eyre"

                Nota:

                • quote Aboulela, http://www.leila-aboulela.com/books/the-translator/inspiration/
                1. "I visualized Sammar as the ordinary girl- next-door placed in a romantic predicament"

                  Nota:

                  • quote Aboulela, http://www.leila-aboulela.com/books/the-translator/inspiration/
                  1. widow
                    1. Arabic translator at the University of Aberdeen
                      1. very religious
                      2. car accident
                2. Rae
                  1. Islamic scholar
                3. further reading
                  1. masculinity in The Translator

                    Nota:

                    • http://www.jmmsweb.org/issues/volume1/number2/pp170-182
                    1. Orientalism - Edward Said
                      1. Translating silence, transmitting faith: Personal and cultural understanding in Leila Aboulela's The Translator

                        Nota:

                        • http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1390295075_Alaa.pdf
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