Browsing Research Publications (English Studies) by Author "Moolla, F. Fiona"
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Her heart lies at the feet of the mother: Transformations of the romance plot in Leila Aboulela’s minaret
Moolla, F. Fiona (University of Western Cape, 2021)Sudanese-British writer, Leila Aboulela’s novel, Minaret (2005) transforms the plot structure of Western literary and popular romance forms and develops further the plotlines of African-American Muslim romance novels. ... -
Love in a State of Fear: Reflections on Intimate Relations in Nuruddin Farah's Dictatorship Novels
Moolla, F. Fiona (Routledge, 2016)Romantic love, shot through with passion and the erotic, has extremely rarely been the focus of the study of African oral traditions or a theme considered in African literature criticism. This situation prevails despite ... -
The polygynous household in Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives: a haven in a heartless world
Moolla, F. Fiona (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)Despite Lola Shoneyin’s public condemnation of the impediments to female autonomy, equality, freedom, dignity, and self-realisation inherent in polygamy, the polyvalent nature of her contemporary Nigerian novel, The Secret ... -
Zimbabwean foodways, feminisms, and transforming nationalisms in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s nervous conditions and no violet bulawayo’s we need new names
Moolla, F. Fiona (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)Food studies are a productive lens through which to view the impact of social, cultural, historical and political shifts on conceptions of female identity. Nervous Conditions (1988) and we need new names (2013) are two ...