The space of the transnational : feminisms and ummah in African and Southeast Asian writing / Shirin E. Edwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwin, Shirin, author.

Series:

SUNY series, genders in the global south

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Feminism.

Ummah (Islam)--Southeast Asia.

Ummah (Islam).

Ummah (Islam)--Africa.

Muslim women authors--Southeast Asia.

Muslim women authors.

Muslim women authors--Africa.

Feminism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Online

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Summary:

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing. This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and heteronormativity. By closely reading and examining examples of ummah-building strategies in interfaith dialogues, exchanges, and encounters between Muslim and non-Muslim women in a selection of African and Southeast Asian fictions and essays, this book highlights women's assertive activisms to redefine transnationalism, understood as relationships across national boundaries, as transgeography. Ummah-building strategies shift the space of, or respatialize, transnational relationships, focusing on connections between communities, groups, and affiliations within the same nation. Such a respatialization also enables a more equitable and inclusive remediation of the citizenship of gendered and religious citizens to the nation-state and the transnational sphere of relationships.

Contents:

Introduction: mapping disjunctures and dissonance: transnationalism as transgeography in ummah

Chapter 1 Ummah and friendships: transgeographic inscriptions of transnational Islamic feminisms

Chapter 2 Windowed encounters: gazes, times, and ummah

Chapter 3 Intimate bonds: marriage, race, and ummah

Chapter 4 The sterile womb: nation space, domestic violence, polygamous relationships, and ummah

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Edwin, Shirin E. The Space of the Transnational

ISBN:

9781438486406

1438486405

OCLC:

1266210389