Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; A Note on Transliteration; 1. Introduction: Poetry, Politics, Women; 2. Form, Education and Women: Rekhti, Reform and the Zenana; 3. Progressive Aspirations: Sexual Politics and Women's Writing; 4. Fahmida Riaz: A Woman Impure; 5. Kishwar Naheed: Dreamer, Storyteller, Changemaker; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Amina Yaqin is Reader in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS, University of London. She is co-author with Peter Morey of Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11. 

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Amina Yaqin, Yaqin Amina
• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781785277559
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-755-9
• Seiten: 294
• Serien: Anthem Studies in South Asian; Anthem Studies in South Asian Literature, Aesthetics and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, RELIGION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Religion and beliefs, Society and culture: general, Literature: history and criticism, literary criticism; social science; religion