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This essential collection examines South and Southeast Asian Muslim
women's writing and the ways they navigate cultural, political, and
controversial boundaries. Providing a global, contemporary
collection of essays, this volume uses varied methods of analysis
and methodology, including: * Contemporary forms of expression,
such as memoir, oral accounts, romance novels, poetry, and social
media; * Inclusion of both recognized and lesser-known Muslim
authors; * Division by theme to shed light on geographical and
transnational concerns; and * Regional focus on Afghanistan,
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Muslim Women's Writing from across South and Southeast Asia will
deliver crucial scholarship for all readers interested in the
varied perspectives and comparisons of Southern Asian writing,
enabling both students and scholars alike to become better
acquainted with the burgeoning field of Muslim women's writing.
This timely and challenging volume aims to give voice to the
creative women who are frequently overlooked and unheard.
Muslim women have been stereotyped by Western academia as oppressed
and voiceless. This volume problematizes this Western academic
representation. Muslim Women Writers from the Middle East from Out
al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah (1899-1968) and Latifa al-Zayat
(1923-1996) from Egypt, to current diasporic writers such as Tamara
Chalabi from Iraq, Mohja Kahf from Syria, and even trendy writers
such as Alexandra Chreiteh, challenge the received notion of Middle
Eastern women as subjugated and secluded. The younger largely
Muslim women scholars collected in this book present cutting edge
theoretical perspectives on these Muslim women writers. This book
includes essays from the conflict-ridden countries such as Iran,
Iraq, Palestine, Syria, and the resultant diaspora. The strengths
of Muslim women writers are captured by the scholars included
herein. The approach is feminist, post-colonial, and disruptive of
Western stereotypical academic tropes.
This essential collection examines South and Southeast Asian Muslim
women's writing and the ways they navigate cultural, political, and
controversial boundaries. Providing a global, contemporary
collection of essays, this volume uses varied methods of analysis
and methodology, including: * Contemporary forms of expression,
such as memoir, oral accounts, romance novels, poetry, and social
media; * Inclusion of both recognized and lesser-known Muslim
authors; * Division by theme to shed light on geographical and
transnational concerns; and * Regional focus on Afghanistan,
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Muslim Women's Writing from across South and Southeast Asia will
deliver crucial scholarship for all readers interested in the
varied perspectives and comparisons of Southern Asian writing,
enabling both students and scholars alike to become better
acquainted with the burgeoning field of Muslim women's writing.
This timely and challenging volume aims to give voice to the
creative women who are frequently overlooked and unheard.
People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often
suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have
assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early
Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of
perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of
the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and
continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed
exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the
victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until
their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout
Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment
occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and
creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in
rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks,
and others).
Muslim women have been stereotyped by Western academia as oppressed
and voiceless. This volume problematizes this Western academic
representation. Muslim Women Writers from the Middle East from Out
al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah (1899-1968) and Latifa al-Zayat
(1923-1996) from Egypt, to current diasporic writers such as Tamara
Chalabi from Iraq, Mohja Kahf from Syria, and even trendy writers
such as Alexandra Chreiteh, challenge the received notion of Middle
Eastern women as subjugated and secluded. The younger largely
Muslim women scholars collected in this book present cutting edge
theoretical perspectives on these Muslim women writers. This book
includes essays from the conflict-ridden countries such as Iran,
Iraq, Palestine, Syria, and the resultant diaspora. The strengths
of Muslim women writers are captured by the scholars included
herein. The approach is feminist, post-colonial, and disruptive of
Western stereotypical academic tropes.
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