The Silence That Speaks

Short Stories by Indian Muslim Women

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This ground-breaking anthology brings together 38 short stories culled fromover a century of writing by Muslim women from colonial and postcolonialIndia. Selected from different Indian languages, it includes fascinating storiesby celebrated and emerging authors. It also excavates stories from early women'sjournals such as Tehzeeb-e-Niswan, Saogat, and Indian Ladies' Magazine.Written in different styles, modes, and forms, the stories deconstruct culturalessentialism often involved in imagining Muslim womanhood and reflect uponthe diversity of imagined and lived experiences. They challenge sundry labels,explore intersections of identities, debunk several myths, and demonstrate howthe authors navigate the world of voices and silences. Ranging from imaginarygeographies to topographies of Muslim ghettos, most of these powerful storiesnarrate the spaces that Muslim women inhabit, and delineate their courage,desires, freedom, struggle, and myriad subjectivities.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-10-19
Mått150 x 222 x 25 mm
Vikt488 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor500
FörlagOUP India
ISBN9780190132613

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Haris Qadeer teaches at the Department of English, University of Delhi, India. He was a UGC-DAAD visiting fellow to the Department of English, Potsdam University, Germany (2019), and the Charles Wallace Visiting fellowship to the King’s College, London, UK (2022). He has co-edited the special issue of Thesis Eleven on Postcolonial World Literature and Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Genre, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction (2021). His forthcoming projects include Medical Maladies: Stories on Disease and Cure from Indian Languages (2022) and an English translation of a Hindi play.

A spectacular collection that opens up to the English reading public a remarkable range of short stories written by Muslim women in the subcontinent. As Haris Qadeer's expert introduction argues, these writings challenge perennial tendencies to generalize either about Muslim women's silences or voices.' - Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University, New York.