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Haram in the Harem
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
其他書名
Domestic Narratives in India and Algeria
出版
Peter Lang
, 2009
主題
Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / African
Literary Criticism / Asian / Indic
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
Religion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
1433107120
9781433107122
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5FfVjorALRkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Haram in the Harem
focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience of women in three contexts: the middle-class Muslim reform movement, the Algerian Revolution, and the Partition of India. During each of these periods the subject of women, their behavior, bodies, and dress were discussed by male scholars, politicians, and revolutionaries. The resonating theme amongst these disparate events is that women were believed to be best protected when they were ensconced within their homes and governed by their families, particularly male authority, whether they were fathers, brothers, or husbands. The threat to national identity was often linked to the preservation of womanly purity. Yet for the writers of this study, Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), Assia Djebar (1936-), and Khadija Mastur (1927-1982), the danger to women was not in the public sphere but embedded within a domestic hierarchy enforced by male privilege. In their fictional texts, each writer shows how women resist, subvert, and challenge the normative behaviors prescribed in masculine discourse. In their writings they highlight the different ways women negotiated private spaces between intersecting masculine hegemonies of power including colonialism and native patriarchy. They demonstrate distinct literary viewpoints of nation, home, and women's experiences at particular historical moments. The choice of these various texts reveals how fiction provided a safe space for female writers to contest traditional systems of power. Bringing into focus the voices and experiences of women - who existed as limited cultural icons in the nationalist discourse - is a common theme throughout the selected stories. This book showcases the fluidity of literature as a response to the intersections of gender, race, and nation.