Amina Yaqin

Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the author critically interrogates the construction of gender, community and nation in the work of progressive women poets. The book combines the study of nation and community through a close engagement with Urdu literary culture in the twentieth century and particularly the work of pioneering literary women. It argues that gender and sexuality become fixed signifiers in the trauma of partition and the formation of the post-partition Islamic nation. The story of literary women in Pakistan taking up the mantle of public poets thus has to be understood in relation to the history of reform, anti-colonial resistance and a transnational Islamicate culture. The book examines the presence of feminist thought in the work of progressive women poets charting their interrogation of the clash between secular and sacred values and the increasing split between liberal and Islamic nationalism. The book suggests that through their writing and experiences, women have negotiated sacred and secular spaces to move beyond a community that is subservient to nationalist ideology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785277573
• Artikelnr.: 63388379

Autorenporträt

Amina Yaqin is Reader in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS, University of London. She is the founder Director of the Centre for the Study of Pakistan at SOAS and has been the co-founder of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS. She writes op-eds, feature articles and blogs for the news media as well as occasional poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration
1. Introduction: Poetry, Politics, Women
2. Form, Education and Women: Rekhti, Reform and the Zenana
3. Progressive Aspirations: Sexual Politics and Women's Writing
4. Fahmida Riaz: A Woman Impure
5. Kishwar Naheed: Dreamer, Storyteller, Changemaker
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.