From darkness to faith: Muslim afterlife of Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret

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dc.authorid0000-0001-6906-4641
dc.contributor.authorKoç, Nesrin
dc.contributor.authorid13778
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-16T11:14:41Z
dc.date.available2025-09-16T11:14:41Z
dc.date.issued2025-09
dc.departmentRektörlüğe Bağlı Birimler, Rektörlüğe ait Yayınlar
dc.descriptionArts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
dc.description.abstractIn the years following the publication of her debut novel The Translator (1999), Sudanese author Leila Aboulela has emerged as a renowned figure of British Muslim fiction. Scholarly efforts to situate Aboulela's fiction within broader literary circles have often focused on the influence of prominent figures from Arab and African literatures. While these authors have undoubtedly influenced Aboulela's literary vision, there is a notable yet underexplored influence of a Western female author whose work profoundly informs Aboulela's oeuvre. Jean Rhys - whom Aboulela has described as a 'haunting' presence - casts a significant shadow over her fiction, particularly her novel Minaret. Juxtaposing the narratives of exile, dislocation, alienation and unbelonging in both novels, this study lays bare how Aboulela transforms Anna's voyage in the darkness as a young Creole woman in England, to a story of Najwa's finding light in the embrace of Islam as she negotiates loss, identity, faith and a sense of belonging in a secular Western society. Through such narrative reframing, Aboulela both foregrounds the gendered experience of dislocation as a shared narrative terrain, and also inscribes Muslim subjectivity into the landscape of contemporary British fiction.
dc.identifier.citationKoç, N. (2025). From darkness to faith: Muslim afterlife of Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret. Journal of European Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441251364532
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00472441251364532
dc.identifier.eissn1740-2379
dc.identifier.endpage18
dc.identifier.issn0047-2441
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.mudanya.edu.tr/handle/20.500.14362/348
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001554375800001
dc.institutionauthorKoç, Nesrin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage
dc.relation.journalJournal of European Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale- Uluslararası- Hakemli Dergi- Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectAboulela
dc.subjectfaith
dc.subjectpostcolonial
dc.subjectrewriting
dc.subjectRhys
dc.titleFrom darkness to faith: Muslim afterlife of Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret
dc.typeMakale
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