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Resistance and its discontents in South Asian women's fiction / Maryam Mirza.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mirza, Maryam, author.
- Series:
- Global Textualities: Multicultural and Transcultural Narratives Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asian fiction (English)--Women authors.
- South Asian fiction (English).
- South Asian fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
- South Asian fiction (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
- Oppression (Psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 'Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian women's Fiction' examines the literary representation of a fascinating range of resistances enacted in response to various forms of oppression, and addresses the expectations, contradictions, anxieties and even inaction that resistance can generate, particularly for women.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half title page
- Title page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: revisiting resistance (again)
- Chapter 1: Resisting activism: the politics of apathy and disengagement in Difficult Daughters and Broken Verses
- Wilful failures of will?
- Desiring resistance
- Maternal legacies
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Revolutionary love and the romance of resistance: Broken Verses, The Lowland, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmo
- Gendered identities and politicised heterosexual romance
- Motherhood, romance and resistance
- Death, doomed love and ‘failed’ resistance
- Chapter 3: ‘Ordinary’ defiances and the short story
- Familial economics, non-conformity and happiness
- ‘Disability’, speech and silence
- Domestic servitude, labour rights and resistance
- Transnational domestic servitude and duplicitous defiance
- Chapter 4: Queering resistance: A Married Woman, Babyji and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- queer resistance and social privilege
- religious fundamentalism and queerness
- intersexuality, religion and resistance
- Movement and queer resistance
- Notes Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 25, 2026).
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781526150622
- 152615062X
- OCLC:
- 1467878645
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