Female Narratives of Protest (eBook, ePUB)

Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia
Redaktion: Sengupta, Nabanita; Sengupta Sinha, Samrita

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003806486
• Artikelnr.: 69144820

Autorenporträt

Nabanita Sengupta is a translator, creative writer and academician. She teaches in an undergraduate college in Kolkata. Her recent published works include, Understanding Women's Experiences of Displacement, Chambal Revisited and A Bengali Lady in England. Samrita Sinha is Assistant Professor of English, Sophia College (Autonomous). Her Doctoral thesis is in the domain of Anglophone Women's literature from the Northeastern Borderlands of India. She is the recipient of Charles Wallace Doctoral Grant for the year 2022-23.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Nabanita Sengupta and Samrita Sengupta Sinha



Part I: Literary Voices of Protest

1. Poetry and Dissent: Afghan Women's Poetry


Nishi Pulugurtha


2. Mapping Shrines of Memory - Aspiration, Repression and Articulation in Contemporary Kashmiri Poetry


Huzaifa Pandit


3. Piro Prenam - A Voice of Dissent in Kafi Tradition


Ayesha Ramzan


4. Protest in the Poems of Unish: A Study of Women's Poetry from Barak Valley


Debashree Chakraborty and Panna Paul


5. Homes and Warzones in Sri Lanka: Reading Resistance and Protest in Nayomi Munaweera's Island of aThousand Mirrors




Aditi Upmanyu


6. "Fairy Tales" and "Crystal Palaces": Negotiating with the Hegemonic images of Gender and Identity in Amruta Patil's 'Kari'


Nishtha Dev


7. Mokashi - Problematising the Political Identity of a Bodo Woman Protestor as Depicted in Mamoni Raisom Goswami's The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar (2009)


Snigdha Deka and Rohini Punekar


8. Religious Fanaticism and the Advent of Protest Narrative: A Study of Asia Bibi's Blasphemy


Uma Pal


9. Negotiating Peace and Protest through Conflictual Terrains: A thematic study of Temsula Ao's short stories


Rashmi Lee George


10. Aesthetics of Protest: A Study of Select Dalit Women's Life-Writings in English


Roopa Philip


11. Centering the Woman Victim's Conscience in Southern Sri Lanka: Three Recent Interventions as Case Studies


Vihanga Perera

Part II: Socio-Cultural and Performative spaces of protest


12. Malady of the Skin and the Construction of Disabled Female Bodies: A Reading through Indian Narratives


Elwin Susan John


13. Memorialising Gender Violence in south Asia through Contemporary Digital Art


Isha Yadav


14. Phallic Vigilantes and OTT Platforms: Urban Female Angst in South Asian Cinema


Umar Nizaruddeen


15. The Other Side of Nostalgia: Dalit Women's Narratives From the Diaspora


Dhrupadi Chattopadhayay

Part III: Lived experiences as protest


16. Rape, Restriction and Protest: A Critical Analysis of the Bangladeshi Female Student Movement.


Shafinur Nahar and Taniah Mahmuda Tinni


17. The Quest for Dignity, Identity & Equality through Protest Poetry: A case of Miya Women Poets in Assam, India


Wahida Parveez


18. Samrita Sengupta Sinha in conversation with Dr Anita Sharma



19. Nabanita Sengupta in conversation with Ms Renju Renjimar

Index