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Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism - Pakistani Women's Literary and Cinematic Fictions (Hardcover)
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Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism - Pakistani Women's Literary and Cinematic Fictions (Hardcover)
Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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While news reports about Pakistan tend to cover Taliban attacks and
bombings, and academics focus on security issues, the environment
often takes a backseat in media reportage and scholarship. In
particular, Pakistani women's attachment to their environment and
their environmental concerns are almost always ignored. Shazia
Rahman traces the ways in which Pakistani women explore
alternative, environmental modes of belonging, examines the
vitality of place-based identities within Pakistani culture, and
thereby contributes to evolving understandings of Pakistani
women-in relation to both their environment and to various
discourses of nation and patriarchy. Through an astute analysis of
such works as Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani (2003), Mehreen Jabbar's
Ramchand Pakistani (2008), Sorayya Khan's Noor (2006), Uzma Aslam
Khan's Trespassing (2003), and Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows
(2009), Rahman illuminates how Pakistani women's creative works
portray how people live with one another, deal with their
environment, and intuit their relationship with the spiritual. She
considers how literary and cinematic documentation of place-based
identities simultaneously critiques and counters stereotypes of
Pakistan as a country of religious nationalism and oppressive
patriarchy. Rahman's analysis discloses fresh perspectives for
thinking about the relationship between social and environmental
justice.
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