Haram in the harem : domestic narratives in India and Algeria / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi.

Contributor:

Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.

Series:

Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 8.

Postcolonial studies, 1942-6100 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015.

K̲h̲adījah Mastūr, 1927-1982.

Cug̲h̲tāʼī, ʻIṣmat, 1915-1991.

Muslim women in literature.

Patriarchy in literature.

Families in literature.

Cug̲h̲tāʼī, ʻIṣmat, 1915-1991--Criticism and interpretation.

Cug̲h̲tāʼī, ʻIṣmat.

K̲h̲adījah Mastūr, 1927-1982--Criticism and interpretation.

K̲h̲adījah Mastūr.

Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015--Criticism and interpretation.

Djebar, Assia.

Muslim women--India--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

Social conditions.

Criticism and interpretation.

India.

Muslim women--Pakistan--Social conditions.

Muslim women--Algeria--Social conditions.

Algeria.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

viii, 118 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2009]

Contents:

Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife

The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold

The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor

Multiple narratives in short fiction

When real life and fiction converge

Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist"

The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' "

the complete housewife"

Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt"

Conclusion

"Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments

Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter

Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow

Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences

Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure

Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure"

Thematic intersections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781433107122

1433107120

OCLC:

320525149

Publisher Number:

99934685491