Behind the Veil : Representation of Muslim Woman in Indian Writings in
English 1950-2000/edited by A.R. Kidwai. New Delhi, APH Pub., 2007, 200 p.,
$33. ISBN 81-313-0150-8.
Behind the Veil : Representation of Muslim Woman in Indian Writings in
English 1950-2000/edited by A.R. Kidwai. New Delhi, APH Pub., 2007, 200 p.,
$33. ISBN 81-313-0150-8.
Contents: Dedication. Acknowledgements. Contributors. Introduction. 1. Muslim image in post-colonial South Indian fiction/Masoodul Hasan. 2. (Un) Veiling (Dis) honour: image of Muslim woman in post independence Indian writings in English/A.R. Kidwai. 3. Imagining another Pakistan- Muqaddastan: perception of Muslims in Balwant Gargi's Purple Moonlight/A.R. Kidwai. 4. The trope of home and the representation of Muslim women in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a broken column/Md. Mahmudul Hasan. 5. Feminism and feminist Utopia in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Sultana's dream/Seemin Hasan. 6. Suffering of women and the question of plural identity: Amitava Kumar's reading of the politics of faith in Husband of a Fanatic/Mohd Asim Siddiqui. 7. Representation of Muslim women in Qurratulain Hyder's Agle Janam Mohe Bitia Na Kijo and Ruskin Bond's A Flight of Pigeon: a comparative study/Sami Rafiq. 8. A Muslim woman's life in Qurratulain Hyder's fiction with special reference to Sita Betrayed, The Housing Society and A Woman's life/Humera Khatoon. 9. Muslim women characters in the short stories on partition/Humera Khatoon. 10. Images of Muslim women in Indian television serials/Sabina Kidwai. Bibliography. Index.
"This volume of ten collected articles stands out, at one level, as a contribution to marginality studies. Its overarching concern is to identity the main contours of the representation of Muslim woman in post-independence Indian writings in English (1950-2000). So doing, it examines also whether this representation replicates or modifies the image of Muslim woman as ingrained in western literary tradition. The volume contains a critique of the image of Muslim woman in TV serials. Appended to the volume is an extensive bibliography covering the discourse on representation and gender issues, with pointed reference to Muslim woman." (jacket)