Drawing on twenty months of fieldwork conducted in four urban cities and villages in two provinces in Pakistan, this work presents an ethnographic account of women fiction writers' engagement with the digest genre (published in commercial monthly magazines) and the community (of readers and writers) formed around it. These fictional stories are extremely popular. However, they are socially perceived as 'low brow' and disavowed as having no literary merit. In this context, this research traces the specific forms attachment, articulation, and agency take in the lives of women whose stories…mehr
Drawing on twenty months of fieldwork conducted in four urban cities and villages in two provinces in Pakistan, this work presents an ethnographic account of women fiction writers' engagement with the digest genre (published in commercial monthly magazines) and the community (of readers and writers) formed around it. These fictional stories are extremely popular. However, they are socially perceived as 'low brow' and disavowed as having no literary merit. In this context, this research traces the specific forms attachment, articulation, and agency take in the lives of women whose stories resonate with many, but who also face the critique of not being authentic writers.
Kiran Ahmed is Assistant Professor, Centre of Excellence in Gender Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad. She has also been a Research Associate (Gender) at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). Ahmed holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and Masters' degrees in International Relations, Anthropology, and Philosophy from Pakistan, USA, and Canada respectively.
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* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Attachment * Articulation * Agency * Ethnographic Positioning * Chapter Overview * Chapter 1: In Quest of Anonymity: Bonds of Friendship in the Digest Community * The Digest Community as One of Sound * Emotional Resonance * Bonds in a World of Invisible Ethnic and Political Identities * Trust * Interaction with Familial Bonds * Emotional Leaning in a Dyad * Conversations as Connections? * Chapter 2: In Quest of Stories: Writers, Readers, and Fiction * Shadows of Imagination': A Digest Story * Bonds between Women * Same-sex Desire * To Be a Woman? * Writers' Articulations of Imagined Possibilities and Lived Experiences * Shelter on Nameless Paths': A Digest Story * Digest Fiction As a Site of Fluid Lived Realities * Self-Reflexive Engagement as a Reader * Testing Boundaries of Known Worlds * Chapter 3: In Quest of Meaning: Four Women and their Stories * Interior' Sindh * Digests in a Family of Saintly Storytellers * Madare Shah: Agency as a Declaration of Independence * Kulsoom: Agency as Social Work * New Identities * Simran: Agency as Authenticity * Contextualising Agency * Beyond the Bounds of Rationality * Fettered Spaces and Unfettered Time * Sumaira: Agency as Disengagement * Chapter 4: In Quest of Respect: Engagement with the Electronic Media * Contextualising Authenticity in New Arenas * Digest Writers in the Visual Arena of Television * Humsafar: Popularly Accepted but Not Respected * Overturning the Ethnographic Gaze * Hands that Chop Garlic Can Never Write a Worthwhile Sentence'? Digest Writers Respond Simran: Blurring lines between Halal and Haram * Shehnaz: 'Interview Chaudhary Sahib Too: You Know How Men Are' * Conclusion * The Story of This Book * The Next Step * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Attachment * Articulation * Agency * Ethnographic Positioning * Chapter Overview * Chapter 1: In Quest of Anonymity: Bonds of Friendship in the Digest Community * The Digest Community as One of Sound * Emotional Resonance * Bonds in a World of Invisible Ethnic and Political Identities * Trust * Interaction with Familial Bonds * Emotional Leaning in a Dyad * Conversations as Connections? * Chapter 2: In Quest of Stories: Writers, Readers, and Fiction * Shadows of Imagination': A Digest Story * Bonds between Women * Same-sex Desire * To Be a Woman? * Writers' Articulations of Imagined Possibilities and Lived Experiences * Shelter on Nameless Paths': A Digest Story * Digest Fiction As a Site of Fluid Lived Realities * Self-Reflexive Engagement as a Reader * Testing Boundaries of Known Worlds * Chapter 3: In Quest of Meaning: Four Women and their Stories * Interior' Sindh * Digests in a Family of Saintly Storytellers * Madare Shah: Agency as a Declaration of Independence * Kulsoom: Agency as Social Work * New Identities * Simran: Agency as Authenticity * Contextualising Agency * Beyond the Bounds of Rationality * Fettered Spaces and Unfettered Time * Sumaira: Agency as Disengagement * Chapter 4: In Quest of Respect: Engagement with the Electronic Media * Contextualising Authenticity in New Arenas * Digest Writers in the Visual Arena of Television * Humsafar: Popularly Accepted but Not Respected * Overturning the Ethnographic Gaze * Hands that Chop Garlic Can Never Write a Worthwhile Sentence'? Digest Writers Respond Simran: Blurring lines between Halal and Haram * Shehnaz: 'Interview Chaudhary Sahib Too: You Know How Men Are' * Conclusion * The Story of This Book * The Next Step * Bibliography * Index
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