Dislocating Narrativity : hybridity, culture and identity in Leila Aboulela's the kindness of enemies

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This papers attempts to investigate the representation of diasporic characters in fictional narrative discourse by Anglophone Arab woman writerwho lives in Britain namely Leila Aboulela.

She seeks to negotiate issues of identity, home, hybridity and culture by dislocating the narrative linearity.

These notions are interrogated in her recent novel The Kindness of Enemies (2015).

It discusses the process of establishing a bridge of coexistence and tolerance amid cultural and religious differences .Moreover, the current paper traces the crisis of identity, particularly when it is difficult to assimilate and acculturate.

The novel offers penetrations to construct a transformative transcultural spaces of belonging.