Sultana's Sisters

Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women's Fiction
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-43250-8
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Genre Fiction

This book traces the genealogy of ‘women’s fiction’ in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women. It explores how Muslim women have contributed to the growth and development of genre fiction in South Asia and brings into focus diverse genres, including speculative, horror, campus fiction, romance, graphic, dystopian amongst others, from the early 20th century to the present.

The book debunks myths about stereotypical representations of South Asian Muslim women and critically explores how they have located their sensibilities, body, religious/secular identities, emotions, and history, and have created a space of their own. It discusses works by authors such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Hijab Imtiaz Ali, Mrs. Abdul Qadir, Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, Khadija Mastur, Qurratulain Hyder, Wajida Tabbasum, Attia Hosain, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz, Selina Hossain, Shaheen Akhtar, Bilquis Sheikh, Gulshan Esther, Maha Khan Phillips, Zahida Zaidi, Bina Shah, Andaleeb Wajid, and Ayesha Tariq.

A volume full of remarkable discoveries for the field of genre fiction, both in South Asia and for the wider world, this book, in the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literary studies, South Asian literature, cultural studies, history, Islamic feminism, religious studies, gender and sexuality, sociology, translation studies, and comparative literatures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qadeer, Haris

Arafath, P. K. Yasser

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Section I

Genres and Early Fiction

1. Fruits of Freedom: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Writings as Genre Fiction Barnita Bagchi

2. Locating Romance and Women Writers in Urdu Literature: Hijab Imtiaz Ali’s Genre Fiction Shweta Sachdeva Jha

3. “I’m nobody! Who are you?” Mrs. Abdul Qadir’s Horror Fiction and the Non- Authorial Jaideep Pandey

4. Gendering the Urdu Novel: Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, and the Women Question Mohammed Afzal

Section II

Genres and Modernity

5. Women Who Wielded Pens: Khadija Mastur Mehr Afshan Farooqi

6. “Studies in [ ] Dying Culture[s]”: Qurratulain Hyder and Urdu Fantasy Fiction in Self-translation Fatima Rizvi

7. “The Forbidden City”: An Exploration of Wajida Tabassum’s Fiction Wafa Hamid

8. ‘1971 Novels’ in Bangladesh: Women’s Writing between the Popular and the Literary Mosarrap Hossain Khan

9. Sunlight on a Broken Column and The Heart Divided as Autobiographically-Inspired Realist Texts: Navigating Gendered Socio-political Identities in Genre Fiction Mobeen Hussain

Section III

Postcolonial Genres

10. “Obedient daughters" and the Deployment of Graphic Stereotypes Christel Devadawson

11 Contemporary Politics and Prehistoric Past through Popular Genres: Maha Khan Phillips’ Novels Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

12. Occupying Educational and Intellectual Space: Woman as Radical Flâneuse in Zahida Zaidi’s Campus Novel Inqilab Ka Ek Din Aysha Munira Rasheed

13. Making Sense of Conversion to Christianity in Twentieth-Century Pakistan: Two Women’s Co-Authored Autobiographies as Crafted Accounts Madeline Clements

14. Feminist Futures in the Speculative Fictions of Andaleeb Wajid and Bina Shah Umme Al-wazedi

Über Autor(innen)

Haris Qadeer is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Delhi, India. He was visiting faculty at the Department of English, Potsdam University, Germany (2019). His research interests include literatures and cultures of South Asian Muslims, refugee narratives, post-colonial studies, translations, and South Asian writings in English. He has coedited a special issue on postcolonial world literature, Thesis Eleven. He has translated writings by Joginder Paul, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Manto, Zafar Ali, Anis Rafi, Krishn Chandra, and Taranum Riyaz. His forthcoming works are The Silence that Speaks: Short Fiction by Indian Muslim Women and Medical Maladies: Doctors, Patients, and Hospitals in Indian Short Fiction.

P. K. Yasser Arafath is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. He was Dr. L. M. Singhvi Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge University, UK (2017). His research papers and articles have been published in major journals, including Economic and Political Weekly, Social Scientists, Medieval History Journal, IESHR, and Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Currently, he is completing a book manuscript, titled Malabarnama: Intimate Texts and Lyrical Resistance in the Age of Disorder (c. 1500–1875). He has a PhD degree in History from Hyderabad Central University (HCU), India.