Haram in the harem
Subtitle: domestic narratives in India and Algeria
By: Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Series: Postcolonial studies -- v. 8; Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 8.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781433107122
Subjects: Muslim women in literature; Muslim women; Social conditions; Families in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Patriarchy in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife; title: The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold; title: The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor; title: Multiple narratives in short fiction; title: When real life and fiction converge; title: Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist"; title: The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' "; title: the complete housewife"; title: Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt"; title: Conclusion; title: "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments; title: Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter; title: Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow; title: Conclusion; title: Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences; title: Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure; title: Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure"; title: Conclusion; title: Thematic intersections.