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Haram in the Harem Domestic Narratives in India and Algeria

Name: Haram in the Harem
Author: Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

Auteur: Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

Engels
Hardcover
9781433107122
15 juli 2009
118 pagina's

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Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience of women in three contexts: the middle-class Muslim reform movement, the Algerian Revolution, and the Partition of India. During each of these periods the subject of women, their behavior, bodies, and dress were discussed by male scholars, politicians, and revolutionaries. The resonating theme amongst these disparate events is that women were believed to be best protected when they were ensconced within their homes and governed by their families, particularly male authority, whether they were fathers, brothers, or husbands. The threat to national identity was often linked to the preservation of womanly purity. Yet for the writers of this study, Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), Assia Djebar (1936-), and Khadija Mastur (1927-1982), the danger to women was not in the public sphere but embedded within a domestic hierarchy enforced by male privilege. In their fictional texts, each writer shows how women resist, subvert, and challenge the normative behaviors prescribed in masculine discourse. In their writings they highlight the different ways women negotiated private spaces between intersecting masculine hegemonies of power including colonialism and native patriarchy. They demonstrate distinct literary viewpoints of nation, home, and women's experiences at particular historical moments. The choice of these various texts reveals how fiction provided a safe space for female writers to contest traditional systems of power. Bringing into focus the voices and experiences of women - who existed as limited cultural icons in the nationalist discourse - is a common theme throughout the selected stories. This book showcases the fluidity of literature as a response to the intersections of gender, race, and nation.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 juli 2009
Aantal pagina's: 118
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Hoofduitgeverij: Lang, Peter

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Editie: New edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 157 mm
Product hoogte: 14 mm
Product lengte: 232 mm
Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 13 mm
Verpakking lengte: 235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 364 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

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Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Sociale groepen

Sociologie

Literatuurwetenschap

Taalwetenschap

Genderstudies

Interdisciplinaire studies

Vrouwen & Meisjes

Regionale studies

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Taal: Engels
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