Sultana's sisters : genre, gender, and genealogy in South Asian Muslim women's fiction / edited by Haris Qadeer and P.K. Yasser Arafath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Qadeer, Haris, editor.

Arafath, P. K. Yasser, editor.

Series:

Studies in global genre fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Indic fiction.

Indic fiction--Muslim authors--History and criticism.

Indic fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Indic fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

South Asian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

South Asian fiction.

Women and literature--South Asia.

Women and literature.

Women in literature.

Indic fiction--Women authors.

Muslim authors.

South Asia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xxv, 248 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"This book traces the genealogy of 'women's fiction' in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women. It explores how Muslim women have contributed to the growth and development of genre fiction in South Asia, and brings into focus diverse genres including speculative, horror, young-adult, romance, graphic, dystopian amongst others, from the early 20th century to the present. The book debunks myths about stereotypical representations of South Asian Muslim women, and critically explores how they have located their sensibilities, body, religious/secular identities, emotions, and history, and have created a space of their own. It discusses themes such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Qurratulain Hyder's writings as genre fiction, Hijab Imtiaz Ali's romance fiction, early women Urdu novelists, Bangladeshi women authors, and the deployment of graphic stereotypes. A volume full of remarkable discoveries for the field of genre fiction, both in South Asia and for the wider world, this book in the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literary studies, South Asian literature, cultural studies, history, Islamic feminism, religious studies, gender and sexuality, sociology, translation studies, and comparative literatures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Genres and early fiction

1. Fruits of freedom: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's writings as genre fiction / Barnita Bagchi

2. Locating romance and women writers in Urdu literature: Hijab Imtiaz Ali's genre fiction / Shweta Sachdeva Tha

3. `I'm nobody! Who are you?': Mrs. Abdul Qadir's horror fiction and the non-authorial / Jaideep Pandcy

4. Gendering the Urdu domestic novel: Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, and the women question / Mohammed Afzal

SECTION II Genres and modernity

5. Women who wielded pens: Khadija Mastur / Mehr Afshan Farooqi

6. `Studies in [] Dying Culture[s]': Qurratulain Hyder and Urdu Fantasy Fiction in Self-translation / Fatima Rizvi

7. `The Forbidden City': an exploration of Wajida Tabassum's magazine fiction / Wafa Hamid

8. `1971 Novels' in Bangladesh: women's writing between the popular and the literary / Mosarrap Hossain Khan

9. Sunlight on a Broken Column and Tlie Heart Divided as autobiographically inspired realist texts: navigating gendered socio-political identities in genre fiction / Mobecn Hussain

SECTION III Postcolonial genres

10. `Obedient Daughters' and the deployment of graphic stereotypes / Christel R. Devadawson

11. Contemporary politics and prehistoric past through popular genres: Maha Khan Phillips' novels / Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

12. Occupying educational and intellectual space: woman as radical flaneuse in Zahida Zaidi's campus novel Inqilab ka Ek Din / Aysha Munira Rasheed

13. Making sense of conversion to Christianity in 20th-century Pakistan: two women's co-authored autobiographies as crafted accounts / Madeline Clements

14. Feminist futures and the speculative fictions / Umme Al-Wazedi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sultana's sisters

ISBN:

9780367430856

0367430851

9780367432508

0367432501

OCLC:

1246623557

Publisher Number:

99989266805