Sisterhood in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons and Toni Morrison’s Sula
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https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1703.32Keywords:
sisterhood, Sula, Morrison, Bird Summons, AboulelaAbstract
This study aims to explore how Toni Morrison and Leila Aboulela represent the importance of sisterhood in the lives of women in diaspora, in their novels, Sula (1973) and Bird Summons (2019). The study attempts to highlight the challenges that women in diaspora face, such as marginalization, patriarchy, and discrimination. Therefore, sisterhood has emerged as a powerful force for empowerment and resistance to colonial contexts. These two novels are analyzed through the lens of Postcolonialism and Feminism. Hence, the researchers rely on the views of Edward Said, Franz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, and Bell Hook. The study concludes that both Morrison and Aboulela in their novels explore the significant role of sisterhood in the lives of these women in offering solidarity and mutual and collective empowerment in colonial contexts, particularly to those who share common experiences and challenges. The contribution of the study lies in connecting the two novels and investigating how both writers share the same concept of sisterhood.
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