Research Catalog

Title

Aurat durbar : the court of women ; writings by women of South Asian origin / edited by Fauzia Rafiq.

Publication

Toronto, Canada : Second Story Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rafiq, Fauzia.

Description

239 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• English literature > South Asian authors
• English literature > Women authors
• South Asians > Literary collections
• Women > Literary collections

Contents

• Sunera Thobani -- Homecoming -- This War Is Declared / Sudharshana Coomarasamy -- You Die but Once -- Armed Future -- Now / Maya Khankhoje -- The Transistor Radio -- Did I Ever? -- The Watershed / Shahnaz Stri -- My Hands / Mina Kumar -- There Is No Place Like Home / Archana Sharma -- My Golden Brown Goddess / Lopa Banerjee -- On Women, Asleep -- Vermilion on Your Forehead / Ramabai Espinet -- Cane in Arrow -- A Piece of Indian Junk -- Dare to Bare / Kishwar Naheed -- Speech No. 27 -- First Priority of Third-Class Citizens -- Self-Reckoning -- The Rain within Myself -- After Thought / Damayanthi Fernando -- Roses for my Dead Friend / Renuka Sooknanan -- Desert Storm -- Heroine -- Can I Be Trini? / Lasanda Kurukulasuriya -- Brown & White -- Subway / Malika Jayasinghe -- A Private Affair / Rina Singh -- A Visit to a Funeral Home -- Itch -- Pain -- Puzzle -- Smoked Out / Sherazad Jamal -- Making of a Cultural Schizophrenic / Sheila James --
• Indian Woman/English Man -- She Will Keep Coming Back -- From Promiscuity to Celibacy / Nilambri Singh Ghai -- Your Name -- Woman/Man -- Rano -- Hierarchy -- God / Veena Gokhale -- Reveries of a Riot / Uma Parameswaran -- For December 6 Memorial, 1992 -- Race / Mariam Khan Durrani -- A Youth Rebels -- Shabana / Fauzia Rafiq -- Saheban & the Crisis of Identity -- Just So I Can Walk / Zara Suleman -- The Curve -- Kitch & Talk / Smita Vir Tyagi -- Two Love Poems -- On First Love and Feminism at 16 / Vinita Srivastava -- Grappling / Dharini Abeyeskera -- Tactics -- Queen's Park on Labour Day's Eve -- From the Don Valley Parkway / Fawzia Ahmad -- The Battle -- Latifa / Tshering Wangmo Dhompa -- The Echoing Song -- Translucent Dreams / Farzana Doctor -- Banu / Shanti Dhore -- Hamilton / Sheila Ramdass -- Illegitimacy / Syeda Nuzhat Siddiqui -- To Human Race.

ISBN

0929005708 (Pbk.)

OCLC

• 34887398
• ocm34887398

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries