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Leila Aboulela

Writing as Refuge

Av Bhakti Shringarpure

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Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge is the first full length biography of critically acclaimed Sudanese writer, Leila Aboulela.Leila Aboulela rose to prominence in the first decade of the 21st century for her novels, short stories and radio plays that are anchored in a sensitive and complex exploration of ordinary Muslim women attempting to gain autonomy in a Western world that casts them as misfits. This biography explores Aboulela’s childhood and youth in Khartoum, her difficult migration to Scotland, and her unusual journey to becoming a writer. Shringarpure underscores the connections between Aboulela's life and her writing, and focuses on experiences that have been impetus and inspiration—not only as topics for her fiction, but as forces that drew her to finding her voice as a writer.Aboulela is claimed by many literary universes; from Sudanese and Scottish literature to Muslim women’s literature, African literature, and Black British writing. This book weaves together interviews, literary criticism, and explores key life events to assemble a vivid portrait of a unique Muslim woman writer from Sudan.
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Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and editor based in Paris. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and co-author of India’s Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives (2024). She is the editor of the Decolonize That! book series and the anthologies Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (2016), Imagine Africa, Volume 3 (2017), Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018), and Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (2023). Shringarpure co-founded Warscapes magazine in 2011, which has since transitioned into the Radical Books Collective, an initiative that builds community and strengthens solidarities through conversations, events, and podcasts on culture and politics. She is a research associate at the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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"This biography of Leila Aboulela brings together the woman, her art, and her history in a riveting narration that coheres without reducing Aboulela’s writing to any one dimension of her life. Shringarpure's insights are couched in vivid, often picturesque prose that interweaves biography, geopolitical commentary, and literary criticism.."Samina Najmi, California State University and author of Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time."Shringarpure’s sensitive reading of Aboulela’s women speaks to the depth and meticulousness of her research into Aboulela’s life and work. Shringarpure is a skilled storyteller who deftly weaves together Aboulela’s published and unpublished work, her love story, her complex relationship with her mother, and her commitment to Islam.” Sadia Zulfiqar, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

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