Harem in the harem
Subtitle: domestic narratives in India and Algeria
By: Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar.
Series: Postcolonial studies -- v. 8
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433107122
Subjects: Cug̲h̲tāʼī, ʻIṣmat, -- 1915-1991 -- Criticism and interpretation; K̲h̲adījah Mastūr, -- 1927-1982 -- Criticism and interpretation; Djebar, Assia, -- 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation; Muslim women in literature; Patriarchy in literature; Family in literature; Muslim women -- India -- Social conditions; Muslim women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions; Muslim women -- Algeria -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. 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'. The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' ... 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. 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. 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.