Muslim women's writing from across South and Southeast Asia
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Muslim women's writing from across South and Southeast Asia
Routledge, 2023
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Description
This essential collection examines South and Southeast Asian Muslim women's writing and the ways they navigate cultural, political, and controversial boundaries. Providing a global, contemporary collection of essays, this volume uses varied methods of analysis and methodology, including:
* Contemporary forms of expression, such as memoir, oral accounts, romance novels, poetry, and social media;
* Inclusion of both recognized and lesser-known Muslim authors;
* Division by theme to shed light on geographical and transnational concerns; and
* Regional focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Muslim Women's Writing from across South and Southeast Asia will deliver crucial scholarship for all readers interested in the varied perspectives and comparisons of Southern Asian writing, enabling both students and scholars alike to become better acquainted with the burgeoning field of Muslim women's writing. This timely and challenging volume aims to give voice to the creative women who are frequently overlooked and unheard.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Feroza Jussawalla and Doaa Omran with assistance from Gerard A. Lavin
India
Chapter 1:
From Ismat Chugtai to Samina Ali and Monica Ali: Women's Communities, Contexts, and Conflicts
Feroza Jussawalla
Chapter 2:
"Based on Love and Truth": Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Theological Negotiations in Sultana's Dream
Cynthia A. Leenerts
Kashmir
Chapter 3:
Critique of Exclusionary Women's Nationalism in Kashmir, and Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between State and Non-State Women Actors
Nyla Ali Khan
Chapter 4:
Conflict and Women in Kashmir: A Study of Ather Zia's Poetry
Shruti Sareen
Chapter 5:
Songs and Slogans of Protest: Exploring Kashmiri Women's Resistance(s) to the Indian State
Samreen Mushtaq
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Chapter 6:
The Trade of Giving Up Being a Woman: A Transnational Antiracist Reading of Nadia Hashimi's The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Umme Al-wazedi
Chapter 7:
Women, Violence, and Conflict: A Study of Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Muddasir Ramzan
Chapter 8:
Poetics of Resistance by the Muslim Woman
Sobia Khan
Chapter 9:
The Empowerment of Women in the Controversial Landscape of Pakistan in The Upstairs Wife
Heba Abdel-Aziz
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Chapter 10:
A Mother in a War: Jahanara Imam's Ekattorer Dinguli
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Chapter 11:
Encountering the "Pseudo Gatekeepers": Islamism and Secularism in Identity Construction of Bangladeshi Women in Fiction
Hafiza Nilofar Khan
Chapter 12:
Writing Rights: Women and Community in Sharmila Seyyid's Ummath
Sk Sagir Ali
Indonesia and Malaysia
Chapter 13:
Being Religious, Cool, and Global in the Eyes of Indonesian Muslim Woman Writers: Negotiating Religion and Popular Lifestyle in Islamic Pop Novels
Diah Ariani Arimbi
Chapter 14:
Reclaiming Islamic Religious Interpretations through Women's Experience: Life, Activism, and Authorship of Three Indonesian Muslim Feminists
Lien Iffah Naf'atu Fina & Yuyun Sri Wahyuni
Chapter 15:
Malaysian Muslim Women's Writing: A History of Colonization, Decolonization, and Globalization
Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf & Ruzy Suliza Hashim
Chapter 16:
Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective
Jariah Mohd. Jan and Diana Abu Ujum
Burma, Brunei, and the Philippines
Chapter 17:
Agency of Rohingya Muslim Women Survivors of Genocide in Myanmar
Afroza Anwary
Chapter 18:
Beyond Intractability: Muslim Women Negotiating Identities in Brunei Darussalam
Hannah Ming Yit Ho
Chapter 19:
Reading Her Face: Affect Theory in Narratorial Representation in Malaka Gharib's Graphic Novel I was their American Dream
Wessam Elmiligi
Comparative Perspectives
Chapter 20:
Partition Historiographies in Qurratulain Hayder's River of Fire (India) and Radwa Ashour's Tantoura (Palestine): Assertion vs. Subalterity
Doaa Omran
Chapter 21:
Muslim Women Re-membering the Nation, Writing Their Transnational Selves in Diasporic Memoirs: Sara Suleri's Meatless Days and Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage: From Cairo to America-A Woman's Journey
Bhawana Pillai
Chapter 22:
Women's Narratives and the Politics of the Personal in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column and Siti Rukiah's The Fall and the Heart
Amany El-Sawy
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