Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi.
Haram in the harem domestic narratives in India and Algeria / [electronic resource] : Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar. - New York : Peter Lang, c2009. - viii, 118 p. - Postcolonial studies, v. 8 1942-6100 ; . - Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 8. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Cu�g�ht�a��i, �I�smat, 1915-1991 --Criticism and interpretation.
�K�had�ijah Mast�ur, 1927-1982 --Criticism and interpretation.
Djebar, Assia, 1936- --Criticism and interpretation.
Muslim women in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Families in literature.
Muslim women--Social conditions.--India
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Pakistan
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Algeria
Electronic books.
PK2173.5.W65 / R35 2009eb
809/.9338297082
Haram in the harem domestic narratives in India and Algeria / [electronic resource] : Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar. - New York : Peter Lang, c2009. - viii, 118 p. - Postcolonial studies, v. 8 1942-6100 ; . - Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 8. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Cu�g�ht�a��i, �I�smat, 1915-1991 --Criticism and interpretation.
�K�had�ijah Mast�ur, 1927-1982 --Criticism and interpretation.
Djebar, Assia, 1936- --Criticism and interpretation.
Muslim women in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Families in literature.
Muslim women--Social conditions.--India
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Pakistan
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Algeria
Electronic books.
PK2173.5.W65 / R35 2009eb
809/.9338297082