Muslim Indian Women Writing in English: Class Privilege, Gender Disadvantage, Minority Status

ISBN-13: 9781433149955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 170 str.

Elizabeth Jackson

Opis

In Muslim Indian Women Writing in English: Class Privilege, Gender Disadvantage, Minority Status, Dr Elizabeth Jackson conducts a study of the literary fiction of the four best-known Muslim Indian women writing in English during the postcolonial period.

Recenzje

"Muslim Indian Women Writing in English is an eagerly awaited and timely intervention into the relatively neglected area of Indian Anglophone writing by Muslim women writers. In her searching monograph, Elizabeth Jackson provides a comparative and developmental study of Indian Muslim women's fiction produced in the postcolonial era. She interrogates such pressing issues as gender and patriarchy, social class, and religious identity, as well as exploring aesthetic concerns regarding narrative strategies and form. Jackson highlights the authors' conflicting yet constitutive positionality stemming from their privileged class position, subordinate gender identity, and religious minority status. Her incisive, well-written book should be required reading for students and scholars of Indian writing in English, feminism, and Muslim studies." -Claire Chambers, co-editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Form and Narrative Strategy - Religion and Communal Identity - Marriage and Sexuality - Gender and Social Class - Responding to Patriarchy - Conclusion - Index.

O autorze

Elizabeth Jackson has a BA from Smith College and a PhD from the University of London. Currently a lecturer (professor) at the University of the West Indies (Trinidad), she is best known for her book Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing (2010).