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Gender,Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

Author :  Amina Yaqin

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Country
Pakistan
Publisher
Folio Books, Pakistan
ISBN 9789697834457
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2023
Bib. Info xvi, 320p. Include Index & Bibliography
Categories Literature
Product Weight 400 gms.
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In this book, the author critically interrogates the construction of gender, community and nation in the work of progressive women poets. The book combines the study of nation and community through a close engagement with Urdu literary culture in the twentieth century and particularly the work of pioneering literary women. It argues that gender and sexuality become fixed signifiers in the trauma of partition and the formation of the post-partition Islamic nation. The story of literary women in Pakistan taking up the mantle of public poets thus has to be understood in relation to the history of reform, anti-colonial resistance and a transnational Islamicate culture. The book examines the presence of feminist thought in the work of progressive women poets charting their interrogation of the clash between secular and sacred values and the increasing split between liberal and Islamic nationalism. The book suggests that through their writing and experiences, women have negotiated sacred and secular spaces to move beyond a community that is subservient to nationalist ideology.

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