Muffled Voices in the Zenana and Beyond
This book explores subaltern subjecthood, resistance and sexual agency in the works of Muslim women writers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since the early twentieth century. Locating the Muslim woman in the fiction of these countries from a sub-continental locus, it incorporates concepts of race, diaspora, postcolonial feminism in its reading of selected texts along with precepts of Islamic ...
This book explores subaltern subjecthood, resistance and sexual agency in the works of Muslim women writers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since the early twentieth century. Locating the Muslim woman in the fiction of these countries from a sub-continental locus, it incorporates concepts of race, diaspora, postcolonial feminism in its reading of selected texts along with precepts of Islamic ...
