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Sultana's Sisters : Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women's Fiction.

By: Qadeer, HarisContributor(s): Arafath, P. K. YasserMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Global Genre Fiction SerPublisher: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021Copyright date: �2022Description: 1 online resource (275 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781000458015Subject(s): Indic fiction-Women authors-History and criticism | Indic fiction-19th century-History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sultana's SistersDDC classification: 891.1 LOC classification: PK5423 .Qa24 2021Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgement -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section I Genres and early fiction -- 1 Fruits of freedom: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's writings as genre fiction -- 2 Locating romance and women writers in Urdu literature: Hijab Imtiaz Ali's genre fiction -- 3 'I'm nobody! Who are you?': Mrs. Abdul Qādir's horror fiction and the non-authorial -- 4 Gendering the Urdu domestic novel: Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, and the women question -- Section II Genres and modernity -- 5 Women who wielded pens: Khadija Mastur -- 6 'Studies in [] Dying Culture[s]': Qurratulain Hyder and Urdu Fantasy Fiction in Self-translation -- 7 'The Forbidden City': an exploration of Wajida Tabassum's magazine fiction -- 8 '1971 Novels' in Bangladesh: women's writing between the popular and the literary -- 9 Sunlight on a Broken Column and The Heart Divided as autobiographically inspired realist texts: navigating gendered socio-political identities in genre fiction -- Section III Postcolonial genres -- 10 'Obedient Daughters' and the deployment of graphic stereotypes -- 11 Contemporary politics and prehistoric past through popular genres: Maha Khan Phillips' novels -- 12 Occupying educational and intellectual space: woman as radical fl�aneuse in Zahida Zaidi's campus novel -- 13 Making sense of conversion to Christianity in 20th-century Pakistan: two women's co-authored autobiographies as crafted accounts -- 14 Feminist futures and the speculative fictions -- Index.
Summary: 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 various diverse genres.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgement -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section I Genres and early fiction -- 1 Fruits of freedom: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's writings as genre fiction -- 2 Locating romance and women writers in Urdu literature: Hijab Imtiaz Ali's genre fiction -- 3 'I'm nobody! Who are you?': Mrs. Abdul Qādir's horror fiction and the non-authorial -- 4 Gendering the Urdu domestic novel: Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, and the women question -- Section II Genres and modernity -- 5 Women who wielded pens: Khadija Mastur -- 6 'Studies in [] Dying Culture[s]': Qurratulain Hyder and Urdu Fantasy Fiction in Self-translation -- 7 'The Forbidden City': an exploration of Wajida Tabassum's magazine fiction -- 8 '1971 Novels' in Bangladesh: women's writing between the popular and the literary -- 9 Sunlight on a Broken Column and The Heart Divided as autobiographically inspired realist texts: navigating gendered socio-political identities in genre fiction -- Section III Postcolonial genres -- 10 'Obedient Daughters' and the deployment of graphic stereotypes -- 11 Contemporary politics and prehistoric past through popular genres: Maha Khan Phillips' novels -- 12 Occupying educational and intellectual space: woman as radical fl�aneuse in Zahida Zaidi's campus novel -- 13 Making sense of conversion to Christianity in 20th-century Pakistan: two women's co-authored autobiographies as crafted accounts -- 14 Feminist futures and the speculative fictions -- Index.

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 various diverse genres.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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