This book explores subaltern subjecthood, resistance and sexual agency in the works of Muslim women writers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since the early twentieth century. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, gender studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.
This book explores subaltern subjecthood, resistance and sexual agency in the works of Muslim women writers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since the early twentieth century. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, gender studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.
Sabreen Ahmed received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2013 for her thesis "Muffled Voices: The Zenana in the Fiction of Muslim Women Writers from South Asia". She teaches in the Department of English, Nowgong College (Autonomous) upgraded to Nagaon University, Nagaon, Assam, India, as an Associate Professor. Her recent edited books are Interface: Language, Ecology and Gender in North East (2021), Inked Wreaths (2024) and Interstice: Troubled Mind and Gendered Spaces (2024). She has widely published poems, short stories, book reviews, etc., as a creative practice along with academic articles in reputed journals.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: The Spatial Polemics of Zenana 2. A "Stained Dawn": Zenana in Pre-Partition Texts. 3. Tale of One's Own: Zenana in the Fiction of Contemporary Indian Muslim Women Novelists 4. Neighborhood Mysteries: Women and Islam in Pakistani English Fiction 5. Sister Concerns: Liberty, Identity and Language in Bangladeshi Women's Fiction. 6. Conclusion: The Zenana as a Spatial Closure
1. Introduction: The Spatial Polemics of Zenana 2. A "Stained Dawn": Zenana in Pre-Partition Texts. 3. Tale of One's Own: Zenana in the Fiction of Contemporary Indian Muslim Women Novelists 4. Neighborhood Mysteries: Women and Islam in Pakistani English Fiction 5. Sister Concerns: Liberty, Identity and Language in Bangladeshi Women's Fiction. 6. Conclusion: The Zenana as a Spatial Closure
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