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Essays on the contribution of African, Caribbean, Asian and
diaspora writers to 'English' literature. The 'new' literatures
have most commonly been seen as a staging post en route to the
current 'post-colonial' era. Yet these literatures and the diverse
cultural histories they represent are older than such recent
interpretations of them. This collection of essays investigates
ways in which we can return to 'reading' these 'new' literatures
without falling back on current critical assumptions.
In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the universality of the coherent and consistent subject which found expression in the novels of the eighteenth century, Azim demonstrtes how certain categories: women and people of colour, were silenced and excluded. The Colonial Rise of the Novel makes an important and provocative contribution to post-colonial and feminist criticism. It will be essential reading for all teachers and students of English literature, women's studies, and post-colonial criticism. eBook available with sample pages: 0203202597
An examination of the place of religion, especially Islam, in
political and cultural life took on a special urgency after the
events of 9/11. The essays in this volume concentrate on the way
that Islam impacts on the everyday lives of people who reside in
societies where Islam plays a large part. The relationship between
Islam and women has always been seen as problematic, and by
highlighting women's negotiations with this religion, this volume
seeks to understand the many and various strategies and connections
that are made, and their political and cultural ramifications. By
keeping an Asian focus, the authors also seek to understand the
wide panorama that Islamic societies inhabit, and the manifold
political and cultural expressions that ensue from this. The effort
is not only to break the image of a monolithic structure and set of
beliefs, but also to highlight on-the-ground negotiations, and the
ways that women in particular find spaces within Islamic structures
and discourses. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.
In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique
of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the
underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel.
Whereas previous studies have emphasized the universality of the
coherent and consistent subject which found expression in the
novels of the eighteenth century, Azim demonstrtes how certain
categories: women and people of colour, were silenced and excluded.
The Colonial Rise of the Novel makes an important and provocative
contribution to post-colonial and feminist criticism. It will be
essential reading for all teachers and students of English
literature, women's studies, and post-colonial criticism.
This vibrant and thought-provoking anthology of translated short
stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from
Bangladesh tackle in their writings. It includes stories about the
1971 War of Liberation, women's 'honour', mother-daughter
relationships, the vagaries of marriage and contemporary political
corruption. Well-established women writers such as Selina Hossain
and Nasreen Jehan are represented here, along with emerging
writers, the better to evoke the broad range of Bangladeshi women's
literary voices. Daring in both form and theme, these stories
reveal the exciting transformation that fiction writing is
currently experiencing on the contemporary literary scene.
In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the
duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern
culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films.
Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology
challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject,
or sexually exotic, but also resists the temptation to then focus
on the veil, geisha, sati, or Muslim women's oppression without
exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts. The
chapters cover instead mind/body sexual politics, patriarchal
cultural constructs, the anatomy of sex and power in relation to
myth and culture, denigration of female anatomy, and gender
performativity. From Persepolis to Bollywood, and from fairy tales
to crime fiction, the contributors to Unveiling Desire show how the
struggle for women's liberation is truly global.
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