Arab Muslim Women s Anglophone Literature

Abstract

Anglophone Arab Literature is indeed a ‘promising’ research field, not only because it is concerned with ‘minor literature’; but also because it ‘represents an important bridge of communication between the West and the Arab/Muslim world’(Sarnou, 2014). In this framework, it is intrinsic to consider the importance of language in community formation and the importance of community in language and culture promotion.The idea that language importance in community is two-fold: language has a role in community formation; and community-in this case ‘minor’ community- has a role in major language and/or culture promotion goes beyond the monolingual orientation of communication and is perfectly rooted in an objective cross-language dynamics philosophy as I see it. An analysis of instances from The Translator , a novel written by Leila Aboulela are to illustrate a new humanistic role of language