TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rajakumar,Mohanalakshmi
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Haram in the harem: domestic narratives in India and Algeria 
T2  - Postcolonial studies,
AV  - PK2173.5.W65 R35 2009eb
U1  - 809/.9338297082 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Cu�g�ht�a��i, �I�smat,
KW  - �K�had�ijah Mast�ur,
KW  - Djebar, Assia,
KW  - Muslim women in literature
KW  - Patriarchy in literature
KW  - Families in literature
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - India
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Algeria
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10516829
ER  -