1st Edition

Leila Aboulela Writing as Refuge

By Bhakti Shringarpure Copyright 2027
168 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Leila Aboulela

Chapter 1: Settling Sudan: An Egyptian Story                                       

Chapter 2: Mothers and Daughters: A Khartoum Girlhood                    

Chapter 3: Love and Faith, Faith and Love                                             

Chapter 4: Sudan Lost: The Voyage Out                                                

Chapter 5: Writing as Refuge                                                                  

Chapter 6: Sudan Regained: A Homecoming       

Biography

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.