1st Edition
Muffled Voices in the Zenana and Beyond The Fiction and Life Writings of Selected South Asian Muslim Women Writers
1. Introduction: The Spatial Polemics of Zenana 2. A “Stained Dawn”: Zenana in Pre-Partition Texts. 3. Tale of One’s Own: Zenana in the Fiction of Contemporary Indian Muslim Women Novelists 4. Neighborhood Mysteries: Women and Islam in Pakistani English Fiction 5. Sister Concerns: Liberty, Identity and Language in Bangladeshi Women’s Fiction. 6. Conclusion: The Zenana as a Spatial Closure
Biography
Sabreen Ahmed received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2013 for her thesis "Muffled Voices: The Zenana in the Fiction of Muslim Women Writers from South Asia". She teaches in the Department of English, Nowgong College (Autonomous) upgraded to Nagaon University, Nagaon, Assam, India, as an Associate Professor. Her recent edited books are Interface: Language, Ecology and Gender in North East (2021), Inked Wreaths (2024) and Interstice: Troubled Mind and Gendered Spaces (2024). She has widely published poems, short stories, book reviews, etc., as a creative practice along with academic articles in reputed journals.
