Female Narratives of Protest - Literary and Cultural Representations From South Asia

This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.
The book traces the origins, varied historiographies and socio-political consequences of women's protests and feminist discourses. Bringing together narratives of the Landais from Afghanistan, voices from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Miya women poets writing from Assam, and stories of Dalit and queer women across the region, it analyses the diverse modes of women's protests and their ethical and humanitarian cartographies. The volume highlights the reconfiguration of female voices of protest in contemporary literature and popular culture in South Asia and the formation of closely-knit female communities of solidarity, cooperation and collective political action.
The book will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies, literature, cultural studies, sociology, minority and indigenous studies, and South Asian studies.

List of contents

List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Nabanita Sengupta and Samrita Sengupta Sinha
Part I: Literary Voices of Protest

1. Poetry and Dissent: Afghan Women's Poetry

Nishi Pulugurtha


2. Mapping Shrines of Memory - Aspiration, Repression and Articulation in Contemporary Kashmiri Poetry

Huzaifa Pandit


3. Piro Prenam - A Voice of Dissent in Kafi Tradition

Ayesha Ramzan


4. Protest in the Poems of Unish: A Study of Women's Poetry from Barak Valley

Debashree Chakraborty and Panna Paul


5. Homes and Warzones in Sri Lanka: Reading Resistance and Protest in Nayomi Munaweera's Island of aThousand Mirrors

Aditi Upmanyu


6. "Fairy Tales" and "Crystal Palaces": Negotiating with the Hegemonic images of Gender and Identity in Amruta Patil's 'Kari'

Nishtha Dev


7. Mokashi - Problematising the Political Identity of a Bodo Woman Protestor as Depicted in Mamoni Raisom Goswami's The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar (2009)

Snigdha Deka and Rohini Punekar


8. Religious Fanaticism and the Advent of Protest Narrative: A Study of Asia Bibi's Blasphemy

Uma Pal


9. Negotiating Peace and Protest through Conflictual Terrains: A thematic study of Temsula Ao's short stories

Rashmi Lee George


10. Aesthetics of Protest: A Study of Select Dalit Women's Life-Writings in English

Roopa Philip


11. Centering the Woman Victim's Conscience in Southern Sri Lanka: Three Recent Interventions as Case Studies

Vihanga Perera

Part II: Socio-Cultural and Performative spaces of protest


12. Malady of the Skin and the Construction of Disabled Female Bodies: A Reading through Indian Narratives

Elwin Susan John


13. Memorialising Gender Violence in south Asia through Contemporary Digital Art

Isha Yadav


14. Phallic Vigilantes and OTT Platforms: Urban Female Angst in South Asian Cinema

Umar Nizaruddeen


15. The Other Side of Nostalgia: Dalit Women's Narratives From the Diaspora

Dhrupadi Chattopadhayay

Part III: Lived experiences as protest


16. Rape, Restriction and Protest: A Critical Analysis of the Bangladeshi Female Student Movement.

Shafinur Nahar and Taniah Mahmuda Tinni


17. The Quest for Dignity, Identity & Equality through Protest Poetry: A case of Miya Women Poets in Assam, India

Wahida Parveez


18. Samrita Sengupta Sinha in conversation with Dr Anita Sharma



19. Nabanita Sengupta in conversation with Ms Renju Renjimar

Index

About the author

Nabanita Sengupta is a translator, creative writer and academician. She teaches in an undergraduate college in Kolkata. Her recent published works include, Understanding Women's Experiences of Displacement, Chambal Revisited and A Bengali Lady in England.
Samrita Sinha is Assistant Professor of English, Sophia College (Autonomous). Her Doctoral thesis is in the domain of Anglophone Women's literature from the Northeastern Borderlands of India. She is the recipient of Charles Wallace Doctoral Grant for the year 2022-23.

Summary

This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.

Product details

• Authors: Nabanita (University of Calcutta Sengupta
• Assisted by: Nabanita Sengupta (Editor), Samrita Sengupta Sinha (Editor), Sengupta Sinha Samrita (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032223780
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222378-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literature & literary studies, Regional Studies, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Demonstrations & protest movements, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, female protest narratives;feminist literature and poetry