수단 여성의 미니스커트에서 히잡으로:

A Sudanese Woman from Miniskirts to Hijabs in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret .

This paper explores Minaret (2005) written by a muslim writer, Leila Aboulela, from a feminist perspective. This thought-provoking and disturbing novel revolves around the transforming process of a muslim woman from innocence to maturity along with her movement from Khartoum, Sudan to London, UK. The paper discusses the physical and spiritual journey of the narrator in relation to diaspora movement and cultural experience of in- betweenness. Aboulela brilliantly illustrates the religious conversion of the westernized modern woman who struggles with male characters such as her executed father, drug-addicted brother, egoistic socialist boyfriend, and immature fundamentalist lover and comes to gain religious spirituality as a redemptive power with the help of a transnational group of muslim women. In doing so, she endeavors to resist anti-Islam stereotyping and to represent a different, if not positive, portrayal of a muslim woman who is not merely victimized but independent, educated, and articulate.