Female Narratives of Protest

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.

• List of contributorsForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction by Nabanita Sengupta and Samrita Sengupta SinhaPart I: Literary Voices of Protest Poetry and Dissent: Afghan Women’s PoetryNishi Pulugurtha Mapping Shrines of Memory – Aspiration, Repression and Articulation in Contemporary Kashmiri PoetryHuzaifa Pandit Piro Prenam – A Voice of Dissent in Kafi Tradition Ayesha Ramzan Protest in the Poems of Unish: A Study of Women’s Poetry from Barak ValleyDebashree Chakraborty and Panna Paul Homes and Warzones in Sri Lanka: Reading Resistance and Protest in Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of aThousand Mirrors Aditi Upmanyu "Fairy Tales" and "Crystal Palaces": Negotiating with the Hegemonic images of Gender and Identity in Amruta Patil’s ‘Kari’Nishtha Dev Mokashi - Problematising the Political Identity of a Bodo Woman Protestor as Depicted in Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar (2009)Snigdha Deka and Rohini Punekar Religious Fanaticism and the Advent of Protest Narrative: A Study of Asia Bibi’s BlasphemyUma Pal Negotiating Peace and Protest through Conflictual Terrains: A thematic study of Temsula Ao’s short storiesRashmi Lee George Aesthetics of Protest: A Study of Select Dalit Women’s Life-Writings in EnglishRoopa Philip Centering the Woman Victim’s Conscience in Southern Sri Lanka: Three Recent Interventions as Case StudiesVihanga Perera Part II: Socio-Cultural and Performative spaces of protest Malady of the Skin and the Construction of Disabled Female Bodies: A Reading through Indian NarrativesElwin Susan John Memorialising Gender Violence in south Asia through Contemporary Digital ArtIsha Yadav Phallic Vigilantes and OTT Platforms: Urban Female Angst in South Asian CinemaUmar Nizaruddeen The Other Side of Nostalgia: Dalit Women’s Narratives From the DiasporaDhrupadi ChattopadhayayPart III: Lived experiences as protest Rape, Restriction and Protest: A Critical Analysis of the Bangladeshi Female Student Movement.Shafinur Nahar and Taniah Mahmuda Tinni The Quest for Dignity, Identity & Equality through Protest Poetry: A case of Miya Women Poets in Assam, IndiaWahida Parveez Samrita Sengupta Sinha in conversation with Dr Anita Sharma Nabanita Sengupta in conversation with Ms Renju RenjimarIndex