The Transformations of the Sudanese Novel in the 1990s and Beyond

Abstract

Among the themes characteristic of the post 1990s Sudanese novel are: the use of many narrative techniques with a deep awareness of the features of this narrative genre; the prominence of autobiography as a felt reality that is expanded in the imagination with the novelist borrowing some of its techniques such as the shift to factual events; the dialectic of the clash with social and economic reality; the resort to history as a metaphor for opening up the questions of the present; the use of the local as microcosm; a preoccupation with the marginal, excluded, and suppressed; writing the body; the highlighting by feminist writing of certain issues; poetization of narrative; and other features.