Negotiating the veil and identity in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret
Leila Aboulela‟s novel, Minaret (2005), provides authentic and rich content to explore the Muslim Arab woman‟s struggle over creating a modern yet religiously traditional identity. The conceptual framework of Victor Turner‟s liminality and Homi Bhabha‟s hybridity and the third space are applied in o...
Main Authors: | Susan Taha Al-Karawi, Ida Baizura Bahar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Penerbit UKM
2014
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7777/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7777/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7777/1/5491-18829-1-PB.pdf |
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