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Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Anthem Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Anthem Studies in South Asian Literature, Aesthetics and Culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Notes
- 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
- Notes
- 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
- Notes
- Chapter 5 KISHWAR NAHEED: DREAMER, STORYTELLER, CHANGEMAKER
- The Feminist
- Poetry as Performance: The Mother
- The Limits of Language
- Grassroots Activism
- The Traveller
- Conclusion
- Notes
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX