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Dakota fanning defends role as white refugee in sweetness in. Mar 18, 2006 sweetness in the belly by camilla gibb 320pp, heinemann. A white muslim womans affecting spiritual and emotional quests, as a misfit in two cultures. The novel opens with lillys exile existence in gloomy london, where she forms a strong friendship with amina, an ethiopian refugee.
Dakota fanning defends role as white refugee in sweetness. I was apprehensive to read a story of a muslim woman who is so steadfast in her faith, written by a nonmuslim. Sweetness in the belly won the 2006 trillium book award and was a finalist for the 2005 scotiabank giller prize. Dakota fanning has responded to allegations of whitewashing after it was revealed she plays a white muslim refugee in a new film. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sweetness in the belly. Sweetness in the belly is a deeply imagined immersion into the lives of people for whom war, poverty, marginalization and exile are the commonplace trials. Gibbs territory is urgently modern and controversial but she enters it.
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