Abstract: This article addresses the challenge of articulating an immediate transnational
response to migration as presented in the West Indian travel narrative of Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
(1990). In particular, Lucy highlights the conflict between the migrant’s urgency to project a
spontaneous translation of a transnational encounter and the pre…[Read more]

This chapter extends the focus of wartime trauma scholarship to recognise female
non-combatants’ variants of traumatic victimisation and agency, as presented in the
Middle Eastern and African contexts. The agency of such actors, who suffered
tragically from the traumas of war, was inexplicably overlooked in both Middle
Eastern and African l…[Read more]

This essay utilizes and applies the recurrent and pervasive taxonomic
characteristics of the frame to the narrative of Toni Morrison’s Paradise
(1998), the third novel in her trilogy: Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise.
This critical approach avoids exploring the features of Paradise as a
frame narrative by exclusively comparing it to a…[Read more]

Muslim women’s perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi’s and Leila Ahmed’s examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine…[Read more]