Hybridity and Unhomeliness in Leila Aboulela's The Kindness of Enemies: Postcolonial Reading

Amjad, Fazel Asadi; Albusalih, Sarmad

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Hybridity and Unhomeliness in Leila Aboulela's The Kindness of Enemies: Postcolonial Reading

Authors:

Amjad, Fazel Asadi | Albusalih, Sarmad

Publisher:

جامعة البصرة ومركز البحث وتطوير الموارد البشرية رماح

Journal:

المجلة الدولية أبحاث في العلوم التربوية والإنسانية والآداب واللغات 2020 Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.1032-1051

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Article

Publication Date:

1/2020

Document Language:

English

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2001246077

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2708-4663

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Abstract:

 This paper attempts to analyze some circumstances that lead someone to practice another culture (hybridity) as well as to discuss the period that comes before/during the shifting culture (unhomeliness). The research discusses hybridity and unhomeliness in Leila Aboulela's The Kindness of Enemies (2015) as two concepts mainly introduced by the postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha. Aboulela's novel narrates events of two different stories, the first recounts the events of 2010 as witnessed by the narrator Natasha Wilson. Natasha is a Muslim professor in Scotland of a Sudanese father and a Russian mother who lives the pain and confusion of identity crisis. The second recounts the story of Imam Shamil, the nineteenth-century historical Caucasian warrior and his battle against the Russian invasion of 1839-1859. Imam Shamil is a Sufi-Muslim warrior and he derives his spiritual power from his Sufi Teacher, Sheikh Jamal el-Din al Husayni. The aforementioned novel reveals some Oriental characters who live in certain conditions that compel them to practice European cultural practices and traditions. The novel discusses some notable concepts and ideas such as Jihad, heritage, disintegration of families and suffering of Muslims in diaspora following the events of 9/11. The study shows that Aboulela in her novel, The Kindness of Enemies, finds Bhabha's concepts of hybridity and unhomeliness as irrelevant to the situation and circumstances of Muslims in diaspora, especially in the wake of 9/11 events.

Article Details

Hybridity and Unhomeliness in Leila Aboulela's The Kindness of Enemies: Postcolonial Reading

Authors:

Amjad, Fazel Asadi | Albusalih, Sarmad

Publisher:

جامعة البصرة ومركز البحث وتطوير الموارد البشرية رماح

Journal:

المجلة الدولية أبحاث في العلوم التربوية والإنسانية والآداب واللغات 2020 Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.1032-1051

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001246077

pISSN:

2708-4663

التحولات الثقافية

الأدب الإنجليزي

النقد الأدبي

القصص السودانية

أبو العلا، ليلى

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Article Details

Hybridity and Unhomeliness in Leila Aboulela's The Kindness of Enemies: Postcolonial Reading

Authors: Amjad, Fazel Asadi | Albusalih, Sarmad

Publisher: جامعة البصرة ومركز البحث وتطوير الموارد البشرية رماح

Journal: المجلة الدولية أبحاث في العلوم التربوية والإنسانية والآداب واللغات 2020 Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.1032-1051

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2020

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001246077

pISSN: 2708-4663

التحولات الثقافية

الأدب الإنجليزي

النقد الأدبي

القصص السودانية

أبو العلا، ليلى

Issues

Authors:

Amjad, Fazel Asadi | Albusalih, Sarmad

Publisher:

جامعة البصرة ومركز البحث وتطوير الموارد البشرية رماح

Journal:

المجلة الدولية أبحاث في العلوم التربوية والإنسانية والآداب واللغات 2020 Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.1032-1051

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001246077

pISSN:

2708-4663