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Gender, sexuality and feminism in Pakistani Urdu writing / Amina Yaqin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yaqin, Amina, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Anthem Studies in South Asian Literature, Aesthetics and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urdu poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Urdu poetry.
- Urdu literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Urdu literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Feminism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: POETRY, POLITICS, WOMEN
- Elite, Folk and Sufi Developments
- Reform, Women's Rights and Education
- Feminist Voices and the Legacy of Progressive Writing
- Form and Performativity: The Ghazal and the Mushaira
- Islam and the West: Community and Nation
- Pakistan: Secular Sacred Ideologies
- Notes
- Chapter 2 FORM, EDUCATION AND WOMEN: REKHTI, REFORM AND THE ZENANA
- Linguistic Cross-Dressing and the Otherness of Rekhti
- Educating Women: Reforming the Zenana
- Akbari and Asghari
- Umrao Jan Ada: The Courtesan Poet and the Hybrid Urdu Novel
- Chapter 3 PROGRESSIVE ASPIRATIONS: SEXUAL POLITICS AND WOMEN'S WRITING
- Resistance and the Rise of the Left: The Progressive Writers' Movement
- The Middle Ground of Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Bridging Sexual and Progressive Politics
- Ada Jafri and Zehra Nigah
- Chapter 4 FAHMIDA RIAZ: A WOMAN IMPURE
- Protest, Activism and Radical Writing
- Dissent and Intimacy in Badan Darida (The Body Torn)
- From Sacred to Secular: Culminating the Journey of Resistance
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 KISHWAR NAHEED: DREAMER, STORYTELLER, CHANGEMAKER
- The Feminist
- Poetry as Performance: The Mother
- The Limits of Language
- Grassroots Activism
- The Traveller
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781785277566
- 1785277561
- 9781785277573
- 178527757X
- OCLC:
- 1302012228
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