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Blood into ink : South Asian and Middle Eastern women write war

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Blood into ink : South Asian and Middle Eastern women write war / edited by Miriam Cooke & Roshni Rustomji-Kerns.
Publication
Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Cooke, Miriam.
  • Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni.
Description
xxvi, 239 pages; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Blood into ink : South Asian & Middle Eastern women write war
Subject
  • War > Literary collections
  • Peace > Literary collections
  • Indic literature > Women authors > Translations into English
  • Indic literature (English) > Women authors
  • Middle Eastern literature > Women authors > Translations into English
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword: Translating Violence: Reflections After Ayodhya / Meena Alexander -- Lament to the Spirit of War (Sumerian poem) / Enheduanna -- To Waris Shah (Punjabi poem) / Amrita Pritam -- Intimations of Anxiety (Arabic poem) / Laila al-Saih -- On the Road to Solomon's Pools (Arabic short story) / Samira Azzam -- Where Is My Mother? (Hindi short story) / Krishna Sobti -- Blackout: Calcutta 1971 (English poem) / Chitra Divakaruni -- Do You Remember the Color of the Sea at Dair Yasin? (Arabic poem) / Siham Daud -- Night Patrol (An Israeli Soldier on the West Bank) (English poem) / Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi -- Beirut Nightmares (Arabic novel) / Ghada Samman -- No Man's Land (English poem) / Meena Alexander -- One Cannot Kill a Baby Twice (Hebrew poem) / Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Parbati (Urdu short story) / Farkhanda Lodhi -- Auschwitz from Colombo (English poem) / Anne Ranasinghe -- Our Daily Bread (Arabic short story) / Emily Nasrallah -- Genocide (English poem) / Jean Arasanayagam -- Colossus (Malayalam poem) / B. Sugathakumari -- A New Wait (Arabic short story) / Aliya Talib -- The Sea Is There (Arabic short story) / Aliya Shuaib -- Meditation of Mahakali (Indian Sanskrit hymn to the Goddess) -- For Her Brother (Arabian poem) / Al-Khansa -- Indigo (Bengal: 1779-1860) (English poem) / Chitra Divakaruni -- From Inner Recesses Outer Spaces (English memoirs) / Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay -- From Memoirs of an Unrealistic Woman (Arabic novel) / Sahar Khalifa -- From Farewell Communism "Long Live Jewish-Arab Friendship!" (Hebrew memoirs) / Nessia Shafran -- Where Did She Belong? (Urdu short story) / Suraiya Qasim -- Two Faces, One Woman (Arabic short story) / Nuha Samara -- Draupadi (Bengali short story) / Mahasweta Devi -- A Short Hike (Farsi short story) / A. Rahmani -- The Future (Arabic short story) / Daisy al-Amir -- Testimony (Pushto) / Anonymous Afghan Woman -- The Morning After (Hindi short story) / Mridula Garg -- Interview with Nand Kaur Singh: Gadar Indian Nationalist Poetry in America (Punjabi and English interview, songs, and poems) / Jane Singh -- From Of Blood and Fire (Bengali diary) / Jahanara Imam -- Greening (Arabic short story) / Aliya Talib -- I Remember I Was a Point, I Was a Circle (Arabic poem) / Huda Naamani -- The Gull and the Negation of the Negation (Arabic poem) / Fadwa Tuqan -- The Sound of Leaves (Bengali poem) / Razia Hussain -- After the Storm (English short story) / Attia Hosain -- Tears of Joy (Pushto short story) / Shukria Raad -- Two Hands (Urdu short story) / Ismat Chugtai -- Aboud's Drawings (Farsi short story) / Ghodsi Ghazinur -- The Peace Game (English poem) / Yasmine Gooneratne -- Song of Becoming (Arabic poem) / Fadwa Tuqan.
ISBN
  • 0813386616 (alk. paper)
  • 0813386624 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
94001770
OCLC
  • 29844910
  • ocm29844910
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries