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Female Narratives of Protest: Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia book cover

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Female Narratives of Protest Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia

Edited By Nabanita Sengupta, Samrita Sengupta Sinha Copyright 2024
282 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

282 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

282 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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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. The book traces the origins, varied historiographies and socio-political consequences of women’s protests and feminist discourses. Bringing together... Read more

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

    2. Nishi Pulugurtha

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

    3. Huzaifa Pandit

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

    4. Ayesha Ramzan

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

    5. Debashree Chakraborty and Panna Paul

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

    6.

    Aditi Upmanyu

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

    7. 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)

    8. Snigdha Deka and Rohini Punekar

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

    9. Uma Pal

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

    10. Rashmi Lee George

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

    11. Roopa Philip

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

    12. 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

    13. Elwin Susan John

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

    14. Isha Yadav

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

    15. Umar Nizaruddeen

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

    16. Dhrupadi Chattopadhayay

    Part III: Lived experiences as protest

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

    17. 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

    18. Wahida Parveez

  18. Samrita Sengupta Sinha in conversation with Dr Anita Sharma

  19. Nabanita Sengupta in conversation with Ms Renju Renjimar

Index

Biography

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.

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