Maryam Mirza

Intimate Class Acts

Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire, and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan are revealed in this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199466740
• ISBN-10: 0199466742
• Artikelnr.: 47865944

Autorenporträt

Maryam Mirza is a BeIPD-COFUND postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Liége, Belgium. In JuneJuly 2015, she held a Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellowship at Newcastle University, UK. Maryam has taught at several universities and colleges in Pakistan, including Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Tabish Khair
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Writing Class, Writing Intimacy
* 1: Ayahs and Playmates in Ice-Candy-Man, The Hope Chest, and The End
of Innocence
* 2: The (Im)possibility of Female Solidarity Beyond Class? The Binding
Vine and The Space Between Us
* 3: Loving Class Others in The God of Small Things and Salt and
Saffron
* 4: Domestic/Employee Seduction in The Hottest Day of the Year, The
Space Between Us, and The God of Small Things
* 5: National or Class Allegories? Romance in Rich Like Us and The
Inheritance of Loss
* 6: Speaking Back: The Politics of Cross-Class Dialogue
* Conclusion: Intimacy Across ClassModes of Elitist Narration?
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Author