Space of the Transnational - Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian Writing

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

About the author

Shirin E. Edwin is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Metropolitan State University. She is a scholar of African literatures, women's studies, and Islamic studies. She has also served as a tenured Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at NYU Shanghai and as a tenured Associate Professor of French at Sam Houston State University.

Product details

• Authors: Shirin E Edwin, Shirin E. Edwin
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781438486390
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8639-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Suny Series, Genders in the Gl; SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Asia, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature: history and criticism