![]() ![]() ![]() Since they state that their commitment to their Islamic faith encompasses a critical interrogation of traditional and religious practices within their own societies, I will draw on the term " dihliz ", an Arabo Persian term, (Moosa 2006:7) which suggests a liminal, threshold space. Due to their personal circumstances, both narrators find themselves in a personal space in where they are insiders as well as outsiders within their African Muslim nations. Both So Long a Letter and Year of the Elephant were written in the aftermath of the struggle for liberation from colonial rule, articulating the visibility of women in traditional, patriarchal African-Muslim contexts at a time when personal and socio/political exposés by women writers were quite uncommon.These first generation novellas, situated within the former French colonies Senegal and Morocco respectively, are articulations of agency which move both within and across borders and boundaries. ![]()
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