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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nabanita (University of Calcutta Sengupta
• Assisted by: Nabanita Sengupta (Editor), Sengupta Sinha Samrita (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032223803
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222380-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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