The Translator

The Translator

1. published 1999

2. Leila Aboulela

   • first novel
     • Caine Prize for African Writing

3. setting

   • Khartoum
   • Aberdeen

4. characters

   • Sammar
     • "a Muslim Jane Eyre"
       • 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"
         • quote Aboulela, http://www.leila-aboulela.com/books/the-translator/inspiration/
         • widow
           • Arabic translator at the University of Aberdeen
             • very religious
           • car accident
   • Rae
     • Islamic scholar

5. further reading

   • masculinity in The Translator
     • 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
     • http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1390295075_Alaa.pdf

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