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Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

by Amina Yaqin
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781839998027
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press
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  • Pages: 298
  • Original Price: GBP 25.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 400 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

In this book, the author critically interrogates the construction of gender, community and nation in the work of progressive women poets. The book combines the study of nation and community through a close engagement with Urdu literary culture in the twentieth century and particularly the work of pioneering literary women. It argues that gender and sexuality become fixed signifiers in the trauma of partition and the formation of the post-partition Islamic nation. The story of literary women in Pakistan taking up the mantle of public poets thus has to be understood in relation to the history of reform, anti-colonial resistance and a transnational Islamicate culture. The book examines the presence of feminist thought in the work of progressive women poets charting their interrogation of the clash between secular and sacred values and the increasing split between liberal and Islamic nationalism. The book suggests that through their writing and experiences, women have negotiated sacred and secular spaces to move beyond a community that is subservient to nationalist ideology.

Amina Yaqin is Professor in World and Postcolonial Literatures in the English and Creative Writing Department at the University of Exeter. Her research interests lie at the intersection of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has published on selected topics related to twentieth century Urdu and English literature, gender, sexuality, feminism and Muslim communities. Currently, she is co-investigator of an Arts and Humanities funded project, Empathy, Narrative and Cultural Values. Prior to joining Exeter, she worked at SOAS, University of London.

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