Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing.
Amina. Yaqin
Bok Engelsk 2022 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (313 pages)
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - 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.
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| ISBN | 1-78527-756-1. - 1-78527-757-X
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