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Haram in the harem : domestic narratives in India and Algeria / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar.
- Title
- Haram in the harem : domestic narratives in India and Algeria / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar.
- Author
- Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi.
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 118 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Postcolonial studies, 1942-6100 ; v. 8
- Uniform Title
- Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 8.
- Subject
- K̲h̲adījah Mastūr, 1927-1982 > Criticism and interpretation
- Cug̲h̲tāʼī, ʻIṣmat, 1915-1991 > Criticism and interpretation
- Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 > Criticism and interpretation
- Muslim women in literature
- Patriarchy in literature
- Families in literature
- Muslim women > India > Social conditions
- Muslim women > Pakistan > Social conditions
- Muslim women > Algeria > Social conditions
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.
- ISBN
- 9781433107122 (clothbound : alk. paper)
- 1433107120 (clothbound : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009018153
- OCLC
- 320525149
- SCSB-11106705
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library