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A 5 page paper which examines the themes of
transnationalism and border crossing evident in Amin Maalouf's book "Leo Africanus." No
additional sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAmaalof.rtf
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story of one mans look at the world and the people he comes in contact with. We watch the narrator, Leo, observe his world and the people in it, essentially
remaining as an individual who has not country, no city, and no tribe. He is a "son of the road" and his "country is the caravan," as he observes those
around him and travels where he will. In the following paper we examine the position of the narrator as he crosses over many boundaries. Leo Africanus Leos story
begins and we see him as the narrator, the observer of many things, keeping a distance and detailing what is taking place. In the very beginning we see him talk
of religion, of gender, of life, through the eyes of one who merely observes but does not necessarily adhere to the beliefs or realities he was born into. We note
his humble, and yet complex, beginnings in the following: "In that year, the sacred month of Ramadan fell in high summer. My father rarely left the house before nightfall, as
the people of Granada were short-tempered during the daytime. Quarrels were frequent, and a sombre bearing was regarded as a sign of piety; only a man who was not keeping
the fast could smile under the fiery heat of the sun, and only a man who had no concern for the fate of the Muslims could remain cheerful and friendly
in a town exhausted from within by civil war and threatened from without by the unbelievers" (Maalouf 5). We note some of the indifference, the lack of emotional ties,
in the narrators voice, presenting the reader with an observation. He talks of his father and the day of his birth, discussing the people who are his people and the
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